Television as a Social Issue

Abstract

Foreword - Phyllis A Katz PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF TELEVISION Introduction - Stuart Oskamp Six Great Ideas that Television is Missing - Gloria Steinem Realities of Television News Programming - Forrest Sawyer Television and the Construction of Reality - Ira Glasser Constraints on the Television Industry - Donald D Wear, Jr The Public Context of Debates about Television and Children - Ellen Wartella The Television Environment - Timothy E Wirth Cultivating the Wasteland How Can Television Serve the Public Interest? - Thomas S Rogers PART TWO: ROLE PORTRAYALS Some Uncommon Television Images and the Drench Hypothesis - Bradley S Greenberg The Strong-Soft Woman - Diana M Meehan Manifestations of the Androgyne in Popular Media Changes in Women's Roles on Television - CBS Television Network Multicultural Role Portrayals on Television as a Social Psychological Issue - Gordon L Berry How the Networks Monitor Program Content - Alice M Henderson and Helaine Doktori Program Standards for the CBS Television Network - CBS/Broadcast Group PART THREE: TELEVISION VIOLENCE Television Violence and Aggression - Jonathan L Freedman What the Evidence Shows Television and Aggression Once Again - J Ronald Milavsky Some Hazards of Growing Up in a Television Environment - Jerome L Singer and Dorothy G Singer Children's Aggression and Restlessness Beyond Cartoon Killings - Carol Tavris Comments on Two Overlooked Effects of Television Television Research and Social Policy - Seymour Feshbach Some Perspectives PART FOUR: PROSOCIAL VALUES AND TELEVISION The Functions of Television - Charles Winick Life Without the Big Box Prosocial Content on Prime-Time Television - Barbara Lee Television from a Mindful/Mindless Perspective - Ellen J Langer and Alison Piper Television and the Development of Empathy - Norma Deitch Feshbach Creating Positive Television Images - Halford H Fairchild PART FIVE: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND FUTURE VISIONS OF TELEVISION When Social Scientists Cooperate with Broadcasting - Aimee Dorr Social Science Research and Media Policy Issues - Philip A Harding A Question of Fit The Relationship Between Broadcasters and Researchers - Elihu Katz Making Research Useful to Policymakers - John Abel Today's Audiences, Tomorrow's Media - George Comstock Programming Diversity and the Future of Television - W Russell Neuman An Empty Cornucopia? Future Visions of Television - John P Blessington PART SIX: EPILOGUE AND OVERVIEW On Conceptualizing Media Effects - Elihu Katz Another Look