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Television's Imageable Influences
Camille O. Cosby
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Description for Television's Imageable Influences
Hardback. An examination of how young African-Americans are impacted by the persuasive negative images of their culture that are regularly portrayed on television. It shows how the American media has engineered a climate of ignorance and disenfranchisement by fostering misinformation and indifference. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 figures, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Camille O. Cosby presents a startling examination of how young African-Americans are dramatically impacted by the pervasive negative images of their culture that are regularly portrayed on television. Dr. Cosby shows how American media establishments have engineered a climate of ignorance and disenfranchisement by fostering misinformation and indifference. She maintains that a national viewers' boycott of programming containing such negative images is the first step towards making the television industry face up to its responsibility as the most powerful communications tool in our nation. Contents: Statement of the Problem; Influence of Perception on Human Behavior; The Impact of Television Images ... Read more
Camille O. Cosby presents a startling examination of how young African-Americans are dramatically impacted by the pervasive negative images of their culture that are regularly portrayed on television. Dr. Cosby shows how American media establishments have engineered a climate of ignorance and disenfranchisement by fostering misinformation and indifference. She maintains that a national viewers' boycott of programming containing such negative images is the first step towards making the television industry face up to its responsibility as the most powerful communications tool in our nation. Contents: Statement of the Problem; Influence of Perception on Human Behavior; The Impact of Television Images ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780819195210
SKU
V9780819195210
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Reviews for Television's Imageable Influences
...a challenging, thought-provoking book depicting how television's uncanny ability to shape human perceptions and beliefs influences self-concepts. This book will be useful to historians as well as mass communications scholars.
Dhyana Ziegler, JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA ...a challenging, thought-provoking book depicting how television's uncanny ability to shape human perceptions and beliefs influences self-concepts. This book ... Read more
Dhyana Ziegler, JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA ...a challenging, thought-provoking book depicting how television's uncanny ability to shape human perceptions and beliefs influences self-concepts. This book ... Read more