Bøker av Robert Abelman

A guide for the only household appliance that doesn't come with one. It is about becoming a more thoughtful and informed consumer, designed to shatter the anonymity of the televiewer, and to create a sense of community, for we rarely think of ourselves as instrumental in the televiewing experience or think of the experience as a shared event.

An understanding of how we learn to watch television and why we watch television is integral in any examination of television history, industry or regulation. This text is specifically designed to complement existing texts from a wide variety of related fields of study.

This volume addresses the various and highly topical controversies surrounding religious television by examining its history, structure, content, viewship, and social impact. It represents a compilation of original essays written by the world's leading scholars, regulators, authorities, and watchdogs of religious television.

A study which aims to promote an awareness of the potentially negative and positive aspects of viewing television by gifted chidren. It offers suggestions on how to emphasise the more positive learning aspects and avoid the more negative outcomes of the leisure activity.