For nearly four decades, Sesame Workshop has brought the joy of learning to the world's youngest citizens through the introduction of locally-produced coproductions of the preschool television series, "Sesame Street". Many of these television shows have been specifically designed to forward important prosocial messages directly linked to…

The article uses an episode from the television series "The Sopranos" to illustrate how embodied experiences of sporting practices such as high-school football involve both conscious and unconscious dynamics. It outlines how cultural practices such as masculinist sport are psychically incorporated into the body through the process of…

Young people's reactions to two prize winning programs of the Prix Jeunesse 1970 were evaluated in seven different countries: Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, United States, and Yugoslavia. This report of the evaluations first overviews the plan of the research, discusses the juries which conferred the prizes, describes the two…

A discussion of two basic questions that instructional television users must ask. These are: 1) Where should the student sit in order to see? and 2) What does the teacher need to do to improve viewing conditions?" (Author/LS)

Reports that both the overall diversity and the "specialized appeal" diversity of television programing were greater in 1948-1954, when there were four national television networks (ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC), than in 1955-56, following the demise of the DuMont Network. (GT)

Expands Foucault's genealogy of the modern subject and morals, particularly as found in "The History of Sexuality." Focuses on the contemporary sex therapist Dr. Ruth, locating the phenomenon of Dr. Ruth within the matrix of power/knowledge and the political technology of the body. (SR)

How television can distort images and ideas presented on the screen. (HB)

Results of experiments on the effects of editing structure of interviews are presented. (HB)

This article discusses how the pattern of motives that people have for watching television is affected when cable television greatly expands available content. (Author/STS)

Ontario's educational television station, TVO, has developed into one of the most exciting broadcasters in North America. Federally licensed and provincially controlled, the Toronto based system achieves quality programming amidst a maze of 22-channel offerings. (RAO)

Ninety-one participants in focus groups were asked to rate six programs at a television network studio. The results indicated a substantial difference between indifference and ambivalence; about 92 percent of the respondents whose net affect was zero were ambivalent as opposed to indifferent. (JEG)