The Indecent Screen Regulating Television in the by Cynthia Chris PAPERBACK

The Indecent ScreenRegulating Television in the Twenty-First Century\nAuthor(s): Cynthia Chris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813594064, 978-0813594064\nSynopsis\nThe Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among [url] media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in many ways restructured the media environment. Simultaneously, ever increasing channel capacity, new forms of distribution, and time-shifting (in the form of streaming and on-demand viewing options) radically changed how, when, and what we watch. But instead of these innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency.