Introduction: Early Television Historiographies

Radical Television Drama Introduction

The origins of this issue reside in a season of television dramas, entitled ‘United Kingdom!: Radical Television Drama Before and During Thatcher’, that ran at BFI Southbank from November to December 2009. The season was conceived by members of staff (Susanna Capon, John Hill, Jonathan Powell and Rob Turnock) in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and was jointl...

Race , Sexuality , and Television Editor ’ s Introduction

Early detection: introduction.

The present Supplement of the European Respiratory Journal assembles a number of reviews on "Early detection" and it is the product of a symposium held in Barcelona on June 22 2002. The symposium was organised by the European Institute of Healthcare, which was set up by AstraZeneca. It was the fourth symposium of this kind organised by this Institute. The goals of the Institute were extensively...

Early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems in children.

OBJECTIVE Cross-sectional research has suggested that television viewing may be associated with decreased attention spans in children. However, longitudinal data of early television exposure and subsequent attentional problems have been lacking. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that early television exposure (at ages 1 and 3) is associated with attentional problems at age ...

Early Stages of Digital Television: User Research and Application Innovation

This paper presents results of a user study including ten users. The study participants gathered data on themselves in their home environment over a three-day period. They also designed innovations of future interactive applications for digital television. A subsequent interview with the researcher revealed more of the study participants’ thoughts of the interactive applications for digital tel...