Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Kubey, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Book Overview

Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of everyday living, and drawing comparisons between television viewing and a variety of other daily activities and leisure pursuits, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805805524
• ISBN13: 9780805805529
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"