For nearly four decades, Sesame Workshop has brought the joy of learning to the world's youngest citizens through the introduction of locally-produced coproductions of the preschool television series, "Sesame Street". Many of these television shows have been specifically designed to forward important prosocial messages directly linked to…

Examines foreign news by analyzing the use of visual images in the television reporting of the Nahalin incident--one of the early major incidents of the "Intifada," the Palestinian popular uprising in Israeli-occupied territories. Uses British, American, and French major news service reports to compare and deconstruct images of political…

Compares identical studies of the uses of leisure, culture, and communication in Israel in 1970 and 1990, to infer possible long-run effects of the introduction of television broadcasting. Finds a drop in attendance at "spectacles" of all kinds (whether theater or sports) and a rise in activities that are interactive, time flexible, and…