Seeing and Believing

The Influence of Television

Greg Philo

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English

Routledge
28 June 1990

Communication studies; Humanities; Cultural studies; Media studies; Sociology & anthropology; Radio & television industry

Series: Communication and Society

Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' strike. The results are telling. For most in the groups, seeing was believing: they were able to reproduce central themes and even individual phrases from television coverage of the strike, over a year after the events. Some groups, however, rejected television versions of the world. The author investigates their reasons for this, and shows that what is seen on the news is interpreted through viewers' personal histories, political cultures, and class experience.

By: Greg Philo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780415036214
ISBN 10: 0415036216
Series: Communication and Society
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 28 June 1990
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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