'Your window-on-the-world': The emergence of red-button interactive television in the UK

Convergence

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-182

  Bennett, James ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital television; Gender; Interactive television; New media; Window on the world

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049555805     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856507087942     Document Type: Article

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