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Index 182
Tagalog 146
technology, new 12, 54, 55, 142–3, 150, 163, 178;
and theory 64, 163–4
telenovela 155
telephone, gendered use of 122
television:
audiencehood 2–4, 15;
cable 12, 54, 57, 142–3, 150–2, 174;
channels, proliferation of 57–8, 66–7, 143, 174;
commercials 53–4, 56, 61, 62, 65, 145;
consumption of 54, 70;
as discursive system 22–6, 33;
effects and uses of 6;
as entertainment 23, 30–4, 70;
fiction and women’s fantasy 85–97;
genres 154, 159;
independent stations 57;
integrative power of 5–6, 7, 11–12;
interactive 12–13;
postmodernization of 3;
satellite 12, 33, 54, 57, 66, 142–3, 150, 174;
serious and popular 27, 29;
state control 10;
as symbol for relaxation 50;
as technology 68, 69, 73;
in various locations 154–5, 174, 185n;
watching, definitions of 55, 57, 60, 61, 63, 68, 72;
see also audience;
domestic context of viewing;
programmes;
soap operas;
viewing habits
Television without Frontiers 147
televisual discourse 21–6;
heterogeneity of 27
text/context problematic 20
text/subject relationship 38
textual analysis 99, 111, 113, 120, 187n
therapeutic effect (of romance reading) 98, 103
Third World 144–9, 152, 158, 164
Tiananmen Square Massacre 150
time shifting 58, 60
Time Warner 142
Tobin, Joseph 155
Tomlinson, John 165, 170
Tompkins, Jane 99
transmission model of communication 163–4, 165, 166, 169, 170, 175–6
transnational media system 142–9, 152
transport and flow, metaphors of 163–4
Trinidad 159–61
TROS 24, 29–31, 181n
trossification 26–7, 29–31, 33