Media, Home and Family [Paperback]

Stewart M. Hoover (Author), Lynn Schofield Clark (Author), Diane F. Alters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0415969174 | ISBN-13: 978-0415969178 | Edition: 1

Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life.

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This book is a fascinating read, and a valuable addition to the ethnographic literature about television's role in the American family. Its skillful research fills a gaping hole in our knowledge about how media use is negotiated between parents and children amongst a broad cultural spectrum of families.
–Andrea Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Not since David Morley's Family Television has a book taken up this topic with this kind of scope.I would not be surprised if it attained the status of a classic in the field.
–Ellen Seiter, University of California, San Diego

About the Author

Stewart M. Hoover is Professor and Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Lynn Schofield Clark is Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Mass Media Research in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Diane F. Alters is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Lee Hood is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication. They are all at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Joseph G. Champ is a Full-time Instructor in the Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism at Colorado State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415969174
• ISBN-13: 978-0415969178
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,121,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, September 25, 2005

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Anne Borden (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Media, Home and Family (Paperback)

This book provides a fascinating approach to understanding the television viewing practices of families in the United States. The authors, using innovative qualitative research methods, did not limit their interviews to individuals, but spoke with entire families.

I highly recommend this book to any person who watches TV (that means most of us!) and anyone who is interested in how families make sense of TV, families attempt to restrict the viewing of children, and families incorporate messages of television in their daily lives.

Additionally, this book provides a great resource for college courses in Mass Media, Popular Culture, and various Sociology courses. I am looking forward to sharing it with my students next semester. The authors avoid the pitfalls of stuffy academic writing and instead compellingly relay stories that are relevant and interesting to us all.

-Anne Borden, Sociologist, Emory University