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1. Children and Their Changing Media Environment

   A European Comparative Study

   Edited by Sonia Livingstone, Moira Bovill

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Focusing on the meanings, uses, and impacts of new media in childhood, family life, peer culture, and the relation between home and school, this volume sets out to address many of the questions, fears, and hopes regarding the changing place of media in the lives of today's children and young people...

   Published April 30th 2001 by Routledge
2. Making Sense of Television

   The Psychology of Audience Interpretation, 2nd Edition

   By Sonia Livingstone

   Series: International Series in Social Psychology

   Taking the soap opera as a case study, this book explores the 'parasocial interaction' people engage in with television programmes. It looks at the nature of the 'active viewer' and the role of the text in social psychology. It also investigates the existing theoretical models offered by social...

   Published March 11th 1998 by Routledge
3. Talk on Television

   Audience Participation and Public Debate

   By Sonia Livingstone, Peter Lunt

   Series: Communication and Society

   Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on...

   Published December 8th 1993 by Routledge