Media Effects and Beyond: Culture, Socialization and Lifestyles

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Summary

An analysis of the use and effects of television, video and music where the consumer is not seen as a passive "object" but as an active "subject."

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List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Notes on contributors
Introduction
Culture, media and society: Agency and structure, stability and change
Swenden and her media scene, 1945-90: A bird's-eye view
The Media Panel Program and related research
Media use: Differentiation, change and stability
Media use under structural change
Looking for patterns in lifesyle behaviors
Models of change and stability in adolescents' media use
Young perople and medial use: Individual, class and socialization
For better and for worse: Effect studies and beyond
Self-evaluation in an ecological perspective: Neighbourhood, family and peers, schooling and media use
Media and social mobility
Lifestyle and family communication
Seven lifestyles
Late modernity, consumer culture and lifestyles: Toward a cognitive-affective theory In conclusion Starting up
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