Chapter 1. The social embeddedness of media use: An introduction -- Chapter 2. Transcending Uses and Gratifications: Media use as social action and the use of event history analysis -- Chapter 3. The situational and time-varying context of routines in television viewing -- Chapter 4. Watching television news in everyday life: An event history analysis -- Chapter 5. The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing -- Chapter 6. On the use of an action theoretical approach to television (news) viewing.
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Scholars in the field of communication research have extensively studied television viewing in general and watching television news in particular. The book looks at the subject from an integrative theoretical perspective. Based on Schutzean sociology and action theoretical approaches to media use, the author argues that immediate social influences and other everyday life situations largely determine television use, and that the influence of short-term situational characteristics are often overlooked in person-centered explanatory models. In three empirical studies, the role of short-term situat.