Krcmar, Marina

Living without the screen : causes and consequences of life without television / Marina Krcmar - New York : Routledge, 2009 - xiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - LEA's communication series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-225) and index

Living without television -- Sample and method -- How nonviewers gave up television -- Attitudes toward living without television -- What is television? -- Keeping out televised sex and violence -- Minimizing consumerism -- Politics and civic engagement -- Autonomous children -- Time use -- Encouraging creativity -- Engaging in real life -- Choosing to be different -- Battling the industry.

9780805863284 RM275.60 0805863281 9780805863291 (pbk.) 080586329X (pbk.)


Television and families--United States
Television viewers--United States.