Böcker av Sonia Livingstone

Two of the world's foremost media studies academics explore media regulation and its impact on government, commerce and civil society.

Major new contribution to the hot topic of children and internet from one of the world's leading researchers in this area. Considers children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex socio-cultural conditions of contemporary childhood.

Taking the soap opera as a case study this book explores the way people engage with television. This new edition takes into account recent research work, theoretical developments and looks forward to the development of audience research.

Combining a comprehensive literature review with original empirical research on young people's use of new media, this book provides a fresh and in-depth discussion of the increasingly complex relationship between the media and childhood, the family and the home.

In an examination of talk shows such as "Kilroy" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the authors analyze the "experts," contribution, the conventions of the genre, and the dangers and opportunities of televised public debates.