Title Remotely controlled : how television is damaging our lives -and what we can do about it / Dr. Aric Sigman

Published London : Vermilion, 2005

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Description xii, 356 pages ; 22 cm Contents Introduction -- 1. Arrested developments -- 2. Walking the TV walk, talking the TV talk -- 3. Visual voodoo -- 4. Amusing ourselves to death -- 5. Meet the telly tubbies -- 6. Sexual stealing -- 7. Shiny happy people -- 8. Living in a telltocracy -- 9. Fade to grey -- 10. Controlling the remote -- 11. The state formerly known as boredom -- 12. The potting shed -- 13. The days of our lives versus the daze of our lives -- 14. In real time -- Conclusion: tune in. turn on - or drop out? Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages 329-346) and index Subject Television and children. Television addictions -- Great Britain Violence on television. Television viewers. Television -- Social aspects. ISBN 0091902606

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