The Alphabet Soup of Television Program Ratings
Will be published approx. on 31. May 2001
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-57273-331-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains the responses of thousands of parents and young people to the age-based and content-based television ratings. It reports on the analyses of ratings from several thousand television shows. It Identifies the process by which these ratings came into being and compares them with parallel content rating systems in other countries, In addition to examining related experimental studies. Also included are interviews with a chief rater at a broadcast network and a member of the national ratings oversight body.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cresskill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
indices
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57273-331-2 (9781572733312)
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Content
The Onset of the Age-Based and Content-Based Ratings System: History, Pressure Groups, Congress and the Fcc, Matthew Eastin. The Ratings Distribution in 1998, According to TV Gulde, Bradley S. Greenberg, Matthew Eastin, and Dana Mastro. Comparing the On-Air Ratings with the Published Ratings: Who to Believe? Bradley S. Greenberg, Matthew Eastin, and Dans Mastro. Accessing the Validity of V-chip Rating Judgments: The Labeling of High-Risk Programs, Date Kunkel, Wendy Jo Maynard Farinola, Kirstie M. Cope, Edward Donnerstein, Erica Biely, Lara Zwarun, and Emma Rollin. Comparative Program Rating Systems in Australia, Canada, and France, Linda Lofschire. Young People's Responses to the Age-Based Ratings, Bradley S. Greanberg, Lynn Rampoidi-Hnilo, and Linda Hofschire. Young People's Responses to the Content-Based Ratings, Bradley S. Greenberg and Lynn Rampoidi-Hnilo. Children and the TV Ratings: A National Study, Uila Goette Foehr, Vicky Rideout, and Carolyn Miller. Reactions of Hispanic Parents to the New Television Ratings, Dane Mastro. Field Studies of the Reactions of Caucasian Parents to the New Television Ratings, Jennifer Gragg. Responses to the New Television Program Ratings among Caucasian and Latina Mothers of Young Children, Lynn..Rampoldi-Hniio and Bradley. S. Greenberg. Parents and the TV Ratings System: A National Study, Ulla Goette Foehr, Vicky Rideout, and Carolyn Miller. Profiling Parents Who Do and Don't Use the TV Advisory Ratings, Robert Abelman. Media Advisories and Ratings: What the Experimental Research Tells Us, Linda Hofschire. What Have We Learned About the Ratings and What's Next, Bradley S. Greenberg, Lynn Rampoidl-Hnilo and Dane Mastro. Author Index. Subject Index.