Television, ontological security and the transitional object
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The psychological security provided by television can be understood by the ideas of Anthony Giddens and D.W. Winnicott. Giddens views the structure of daily life as providing an ontological security to persons. Winnicott takes a psychoanalytic view of identity construction through object relations and communications. TV fits these ideas since it is a regular daily presence in peoples' lives and it provides communication of social relationships. TV provides a comfortable transition away from the anxieties of life, granting ontological security.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1993
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Media and social change: the modernizing influences of television in rural India
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The effect of television on social change in rural India is discussed, based on ethnographic fieldwork in two villages in Western Maharashtra. The influences of television are related to consumerism, urban modeling, restructuring of human relationships, linguistic hegemony, migration, and the emergence of an information underclass.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2001
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Cyber kiosks and dilemmas of social inclusion in rural India
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A study examines the professed social transformative capabilities of various information and communications technology (ICT)-based community projects in rural India. The focus is on the role of women in ICT and the ability of the projects to act as caste equalizers.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2007
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