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Title The VCR age : home video and mass communication / edited by Mark R. Levy
Published Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1989]
©1989

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Description 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Sage focus editions ; v. 105
Sage focus editions ; 105
Contents Why VCRs aren't pop-up toasters : issues in home video research / Mark R. Levy -- The diffusion of the VCR in the United States / Bruce C. Klopfenstein -- Home video : the consumer impact / Paul B. Lindstrom -- The uses and impact of home video in Great Britain / Barrie Gunter and Mallory Wober -- Adolescents and the VCR boom : old new, and nonusers / Bradley S. Greenberg and Carolyn Lin -- Social and psychological antecedents of VCR use / Alan M. Rubin -- and Rebecca B. Rubin -- Subjective differences in the use and evaluation of the VCR / Milton J. Shatzer and Thomas R. Lindlof -- Big eyes but clumsy fingers : knowing about and using technological features of home VCRs / Akiba A. Cohen and Laura Cohen -- Measuring VCR "ad-voidance" / Barry S. Sapolsky and Edward Forrest -- School achievement, self-esteem and adolescents' video use / Keith Roe -- Away from the mainstream? : VCRs and ethnic identity / Julia R. Dobrow -- VCR narrowcasting in the kibbutz / Dov Shinar -- The worldwide cultural and economic impact of video / Christine Ogan -- The videocassette recorder in the USSR and Soviet-bloc countries / Douglas A. Boyd
Analysis Videorecording industries
Notes (Sage focus editions ; v. 105)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also issued online
Subject Market surveys.
Mass media.
Video tape industry.
Video tape recorder industry.
Videocassettes.
Author Levy, Mark R.
LC no. 89005852
ISBN 0803932995
0803933002 (paperback)