How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts

The first part of this book assesses how television presents viewers with information - contrasting the ‘official reality’ of news and current affairs progr

Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the so

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but televisio

A discussion of a truly international range of television programs, this title covers alternative modes of television such as digital and satellite.