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Publication details [#45873]

Wester, Fred, Karsten Renckstorf, Henk Westerik and Jan Lammers. 2007. The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing: An event history analysis. Communications 32 (4) : 389–415.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | context | event | influencing | television

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COMM/html

Annotation

Arguing that the role of routinization and situational context in television viewing ought to get more attention, this paper explores media use in households, focusing on how adolescents and parents affect each other's television viewing. Event history applied to data from 55 Dutch households demonstrates that this influence is reciprocal.