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journal article		Is Television News Real? in Lumiere (October, 1972) iss.17 p.32-33 Author: Wilton, Mary PhysDes: Article Subject: INDUSTRY, TV. USA; NEWS PRESENTATION; NEWS PROGRAMMES; VIOLENCE ON TV; SOCIOLOGY AND TV Summary: Article on American news television. Focuses heavily on the portrayal of violence in the news and the wider impact this has on American society. More info
book		The making of a television series : a case study in the sociology of culture / Philip Elliott London: Constable and Co., 1972. Call No: 761 ELL Author: Elliott, Philip Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Constable and Co. PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: x, 180p. ; 22 cm Series: Communication and Society Subject: PRODUCTION; DIRECTION; PROGRAMME CONTENT; SOCIOLOGY AND TV; NATURE OF PREJUDICE, THE [TV](UK, 1968) Summary: "This blow-by-blow account of the making of television documentary series, The Nature of Prejudice, traces the evolution of the programmes through all the processes of selection from the emergence of an idea, through the recruitment of the production team and the collection of a wide range of material to their final realisation in the studio, The results of the study are surprising and the implications disturbing. Mr Elliot shows how haphazard the process of programme production is and how much it is constrained by the social and organisational framework in which it takes place. Of absorbing interest to all sociologists and students of the mass media as well as the general public, this book raises the challenging question of whether it is inevitable that television should be a reflective medium, or whether it can be a vehicle for the communication of new ideas and experiences. " -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes bibliography. ISBN: 0094584001 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- acknowledgements -- introduction -- 1: a case study of the television production -- 2: starting work on the series -- 3: collecting programme material -- 4: preparing programme outlines and scripts -- 5: the presenter and the studio guests -- 6: the audience and the nature of prejudice (by Roger. L. Brown) -- 7: the organization of television production -- 8: mass communication - a contradiciton in terms? -- appendix A programme outlines -- appenidx B the research method -- index -- URL status: URL: 'http://-' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:12:56 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
book		Talking with television : woman, talk shows and modern self-reflexivity / Helen Wood Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Call No: 451-02 WOO Author: Wood, Helen Place: Urbana Publisher: University of Illinois Press PubDate: 2009 PhysDes: xi, 238 p . ; 24 cm Series: Feminist studies and media culture Subject: FEMINISM AND TV; SOCIOLOGY AND TV; TALK SHOWS; BAHTIN, MIHAIL; MONTGOMERY, MARIAN; SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE; OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1986- ) Summary: Focusing on the political and everyday nature of talk, Talking with Television explores the relationship between talk on TV, talk about TV, and, most dynamically, talk with TV. By observing and analyzing the daily viewing habits of a dozen women viewers, Helen Wood captures how television dynamically unfolds alongside the viewers' own personal opinions, experiences, and life stories. She interprets these experiences as daily rituals of self-reflexivity, focusing on the performance of gender as a doubling of place in contemporary conditions of modernity. Offering a critical analysis of the ritual communication of talk television, Wood argues for a more sustained focus on the mechanics of mediated interaction in media studies, particularly as the field attempts to theorize the characterisitcs of 'old' and 'new' media. Directly challenging the fundamental assumption that new media forms are uniquely interactive, Talking with television reveals that televisual styles, particularly talk-based TV, have always sought to encourage a participatory relationship with viewers at home. -- BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index ISBN: 97802520763022 Contents: Talk is not so cheap -- Making talk talk in media studies -- Daytime talking -- Method : texts-in-action -- Talking about daytime talk -- Talking back : the mediated conversational floor -- Texts, subjects, and modern self-reflexivity -- Conclusions : media, mechanics, and the politics of self-reflexivity More info
book		Television and antisocial behavior : field experiments / Stanley Milgram and R. Lance Shotland New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1973. Call No: 412.511(73) MIL Author: Milgram, Stanley; Shotland, R. Lance Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Academic Press, Inc. PubDate: 1973 PhysDes: xii, 183 pages: illustrations ; 25 cm Subject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; AUDIENCES. USA; BROADCASTING. US; SOCIAL PROBLEMS ON TV; SOCIETY AND TV. USA; SOCIOLOGY AND TV; TELEVISION. USA Summary: "For a period of several years we have been engaged in a program of research on a troubling social question: does the depiction of antisocial behavior on television stimulate imitation in the larger community? To carry out this research, a television program was specifically written for the purpose of this study and aired on network television. To assess the effects of the program, our research as carried out in New York, St Louis, Detroit, and Chicago [...] We present here the results of our investigation." - PREFACE Notes: Includes index and bibliographic references -- previously owned by the Department of the Media Library ISBN: 0124963501 More info
book		Thinking about television / Juri Gabriel London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Call No: 21:409.1 GAB Author: Gabriel, Juri Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1973 PhysDes: 143 p. ; 22 cm Subject: PRODUCTION, TV; SOCIOLOGY AND TV ISBN: 0192731262 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: Photographic section -- Working in television: 1. How a programme is made; 2. Who gets the job? -- Television in society: 1. Television systems; 2. The BBC; 3. Independent television; 4. Programme policy; 5. The effects of television; 6. Good, bad, or indifferent More info

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