Age Of Television Research Articles

David Thelen. <italic>Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate</italic>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996. Pp. x, 247. Cloth $55.00, paper $14.95

David Thelen. <italic>Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate</italic>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1996. Pp. x, 247. Cloth $55.00, paper $14.95

Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Participatory Moment 2: Reagan's Magic and Olliemania: How Journalists Invented the American People 3: The Living Traditions of Citizenship: From Monitoring to Mobilizing in the Summer of 1987 4: Turning the Intimate into the Public: The Participatory Act of Writing a Congressman 5: Choosing a Voice and Making It Count 6: Interpreting Politics in Everyday Life 7: Bringing Critical Issues into the Public Forum: Policing the World and Defining Heroism 8: Making Citizens Visible: Toward a Social History of Twentieth-Century American Politics Conclusion: Drawing Politics Closer to Everyday Life Note on Sources and Method Notes Index

Shorter notice. Growing up. Childhood in English Canada from the Great Wat to the Age of Television. N Sutherland

Journal Article Shorter notice. Growing up. Childhood in English Canada from the Great Wat to the Age of Television. N Sutherland Get access H Cunningham H Cunningham University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 456, April 1999, Page 501, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.501 Published: 01 April 1999

Shorter notice. Growing up. Childhood in English Canada from the Great Wat to the Age of Television. N Sutherland

Shorter notice. Growing up. Childhood in English Canada from the Great Wat to the Age of Television. N Sutherland

Growing up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television

Growing up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television

Neil Sutherland. <italic>Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television</italic>. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 327. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95

Journal Article Neil Sutherland. Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 327. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95 Get access Sutherland Neil. Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1997. Pp. xviii, 327. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95. Suzanne Morton Suzanne Morton McGill University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 556–557, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.2.556-a Published: 01 April 1999

Has Cable Ended the Golden Age of Presidential Television?

For the past 30 years, presidents have enlisted prime-time television to promote their policies to the American people. For most of this era, they have been able to commandeer the national airwaves and speak to “captive” viewers. Recently, however, presidents appear to be losing their audiences. Two leading explanations are the rise of political disaffection and the growth of cable. We investigate both by developing and testing a model of the individual's viewing decision using both cross-sectional (1996 NES survey) and time-series (128 Nielsen audience ratings for presidential appearances between 1969 and 1998) data. We find that cable television but not political disaffection has ended the golden era of presidential television. Moreover, we uncover evidence that both presidents and the broadcast networks have begun adapting strategically to this new reality in scheduling presidential appearances.

The presidential election of 1996: Clinton's incumbency and television

Presidential Elections in the Television Age Clinton Becomes a Strong Incumbent The Battle for the Republican Nomination The Seven Month General Election Campaign Conclusions and Epilogue Bibliography Index

Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative During the Iran-Contra Debate

Journal Article Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative During the Iran-Contra Debate Get access Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged the Media and Seized Political Initiative during the Iran-Contra Debate by David Thelen. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996. 272 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $14.95. David L. Paletz David L. Paletz Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 717–718, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658260 Published: 15 February 2013

Teaching About the Environment in Cattle Country: A Reflection on Values and Conflict

Teaching About the Environment in Cattle Country: A Reflection on Values and Conflict Kathleen A. Dahl Eastern Oregon University I teach anthropology at a rural university with a student body derived mostly from the surrounding areas. Sixty percent of the students at Eastern Oregon University are from that immediate region, and another 20 percent are from other rural areas. Many of our students come from families that have been ranching or farming or logging for generations, and many students expect to return to these occupations after college. This academic world, for many, is an alien world, filled with bizarre theories and upside-down values diametrically opposed to those learned at home or in the tiny and isolated public school systems in the small towns scattered throughout northeastern Oregon. Students must learn to cope with the disorientation and even shock resulting from exposure to radical ideas and radical professors, at the same time they learn to navigate the urban environs of the sprawling metropolis of La Grande. Lest you think I am exaggerating the extent of such provincialism in our modern age of television, movie videos, and the Internet, let me offer just one illustrative example. I and other professors teach in disciplines that emphasize human biological evolution. The concept of human evolution is so upsetting to some students that they will not even come to class during that portion of the course, and choose to forfeit points on exams rather than hear about evolution. Perhaps the one topic that provokes even more outrage and resistance than evolution is environmentalism, or any environmentally based analysis of human society and behavior. Eastern Oregon is a region still greatly dependent on agricultural activities like farming and ranching, and on the timber industry in one form or another. I say still dependent because these industries are declining a little less rapidly than elsewhere, although declining they are. Declines in the cattle and timber industries, especially, are blamed on government regulations and environmentalists who, it is believed, are successful at limiting the number of trees cut or the areas where cattle may graze. Every mainstream anthropology textbook examines humanity's development from small-scale foraging societies with minimal impacts on the environment, to one global system dominated by high-tech industrial and post-industrial societies based on intensive profit-oriented

Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. By Neil Sutherland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xviii plus 327pp.)

Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. By Neil Sutherland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xviii plus 327pp.)

Media Literacy in the Third Age of Television: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson

Media Literacy in the Third Age of Television: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson

Home and Away: Television Discourse in Transition

Television in Europe is going through a period of transition. The 'second age' of broadcasting was the age of television: the new, or 'third age' is a television age of a different kind, as Europeans move into a multi-channel environment. The new multi-channel environment underpins a fragmentation of the audience into smaller viewing groups than those which traditional television could command. In addition, this environment has the power to destabilise the experience of individual viewers, who may become less sure than before of what they are watching, who is talking to them and when, and where the broadcast is originating from. The new viewing environment can produce juxtapositions which are unplanned in any production process. The kinds of juxtapositions which are of most importance in coming to terms with the new TV world are those which affect phenomenological stability, namely the parameters of space and time. Those new temporal and spatial relations, which viewers must engage with in constructing te...

Legislators and Interpreters in the New Television Age: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson

Legislators and Interpreters in the New Television Age: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson

How to be a good woman: the playway method.

This analysis considers the "history of [mothers'] voices" embodied in traditional Bengali "chhada" (nursery rhymes, cradle songs, and lullabies). The analysis is confined to the chhadas whose content socializes female children to accept their gender roles in the patriarchal culture and recognizes that the seemingly innocent nature of the material increases and masks its power. The introduction reinforces the accuracy of the assumption that these chhadas were composed by women for use as maternal texts and applies Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of the process of indoctrination from infancy to the use of chhadas to generate "second nature" attitudes and resulting behaviors in daughters. The next section of the analysis synthesizes common themes and motifs from over 500 popular chhadas that prepare girls to accept the sorrows of separation upon marriage, warn them about the necessity of pleasing mothers-in-law, and acknowledge norms of female beauty (pale skin and sharp features). This section also notes that chhadas used to coax children to eat are overwhelmingly addressed to sons. An attempt to subvert the power structure is found in chhadas that ridicule or insult sons-in-law. The third section of the paper identifies the process by which the chhada has functioned as a patriarchal tool and addresses the paradox arising from the impulse to retain the valuable communicative and bonding aspect of the medium. After referring to Anne Kaplan's insight that motherhood is a patriarchal construct, the analysis call for identification of ways women negotiated the patriarchy and acknowledges that the use of chhadas is diminishing in the age of television.

Political communication: politics, press, and public in America

Contents: Part I:Mass Media and Government Institutions. Introduction to Political Communication. Early History of the Press and Presidency. Modern History of the Press and Presidency. Presidents and News in the Television Age. Covering the Presidency. Presidential Rhetoric. Presidential Rhetoric: Genres and Impact. Congress and the Media. The Media and Local Politics. Part II:Political Communication Theories and Effects. Political Communication Effects. Agenda-Setting. Agenda-Building. The Health Care Reform Campaign. Health Care Reform: News and Public Opinion. Part III:Communication and the Presidential Election. Presidential Campaigns: History and Overview. The Media and the Nominating Process. The Press and the Presidential Campaign. News Media Impact on Voters. Political Advertising: Content. Political Advertising: Effects. Debates: Formats and Strategies. Debates: Impact and Controversies. Epilogue.

Film Scanning for DTV and Beyond

The age of digital television (DTV) is here now: standard definition and high definition. Film entertainment will form by far the greatest source of material for these transmissions. This paper explains both the benefits of film sourced material and some of the pitfalls that can occur when considering methods to transfer film images to DTV. The issues of both widescreen films and widescreen TV are covered as well as the matter of whether to generate a single digital (video) master or provide individual telecine transfers for each standard.

Secret Diplomacy in the Television Age

The article offers three conceptual models to explore various interactions between media and diplomacy within various secret settings. In the secret diplomacy model, the media and the public are totally excluded from negotiations, while in closed-door diplomacy they are partially excluded. In secret media-broker diplomacy, a journalist assumes the role of a diplomat and is secretly engaged in mediation. The models help to investigate fundamental professional and ethical implications of secret diplomacy for government officials, journalists and public opinion. The article demonstrates the analytical usefulness of the conceptual models by applications to several case studies of contemporary secret diplomacy, including the breakthroughs in American-Chinese and Arab-Israeli relations.

“Which Communications Revolution is it, Anyway?”

Today's “communications revolution” is compared to two previous “communications revolutions”: the invention and development of writing and the invention and development of the letter press. Their histories can provide a number of lessons from which we can better understand our age of television, computers, and the Internet.

Growing up: childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the age of television

Growing up: childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the age of television