Mature audiences
television in the lives of elders
by Karen E. Riggs
In Mature Audiences, Karen Riggs challenges traditional ideas about older viewers as passive, vulnerable audiences for television. She tells the stories of seventy elder Americans who have worked television into their lives in specific and practical ways.
In particular, Riggs studies older women fans of Murder, She Wrote, the impact of news and public affairs programming in an affluent retirement community, the efforts of several older African Americans to produce and telecast their own public-access shows, and the role of television in the daily lives of minority elders, including gays, American Indians, and immigrants from Russia and Laos.
Although television's own images of the elderly are nearly nonexistent or frequently negative, this collection of interviews provides a portrait of viewers who are often deliberate, thoughtful, and seasoned in their responses to questions about the role of television in their daily lives.
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Psychology, Communication, Older people, Mass media and older people, Television and older people, Mass media and the aged, Aged, Television and the aged, Older people, social conditions, Television broadcasting, social aspects, Television viewers, Mass media, united states, Older people, psychologyPlaces
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Mature audiences: television in the lives of elders
1998, Rutgers University Press
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081352539X 9780813525396
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.
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