Television and Everyday Life

participatory 135; narrowcasting 24,
87, 174; as object 19, 175; permanent
presence 15; power of
133, 142; programming 15–17, 20–1,
73–4; as sociotechnical system 84–8;
suburban character 56–7, 71–7;
supporting technologies 100; as
technology 79–80; understanding
x–xi, 4–5; watching 78–9, 139, 151
text-reader relations 145–7, 149; and
gender 146–7
text/s 72–5, 140–3, 145–7; open 182
Third World 91, 96
Thomas, W.I. 35
Thompson, E.P. 20, 46, 105
Thompson, John B. 66, 67–8, 91,
136–7, 146, 176
Thorns, David C. 59, 60, 63, 70, 71
Thrall, Charles A. 97
time 39, 178
time and space 20, 22, 36–7, 57, 61, 62,
64, 93, 111, 120, 180
Tomlinson, Alan 25, 51
traditions 18, 21
transitional objects 4, 8–15
transport 57, 63–4
trust 5–7, 15, 93
Tunstall, Jeremy 91
Turkle, Sherry 15
Turner, Ralph 
et al.
16
Turner, Victor W. 19, 20
Twin Peaks
72
United States 32, 38, 86, 110, 149, 171,
172; suburbanisation 57–8, 63–4,
69–70

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Index
urban space 170–1, 183
Ure, A. 178
uses and gratifications research 143–4,
146, 147
Vaihinger, Hans 20
VCR 24, 99, 102, 129
Veblen, Thorstein 67
Virilio, Paul 183
vivid present 2
Voloshinov, V. 107, 141
Wallman, Sandra 44, 48, 49
weather 15, 16
Weber, Max 56, 110, 152
White, Mimi 137
Whyte, William A. 69
Williams, Raymond 15, 52–3, 56, 62,
66, 82, 104
Willmott, Peter and Young, Michael
60, 71
Wilson, Patricia and Pahl, Ray 32
Winner, Langdon 81
Winnicott, D.W. 4, 8–14, 17, 22–3, 164;
string case-study 13–15
Wober, J.Mallory 140
Woolgar, Steve 84
working class 19, 71, 116
Wright, Charles R. 16
Young, Robert M. 15
Zelizer. Viviana 47

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Document Outline

• Book Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Television, ontology and the transitional object
• Television and a place called home
• The suburbanisation of the public sphere
• The tele-technological system
• Television and consumption
• On the audience
• Television, technology and everyday life
• Notes
• References
• Index