On becoming neighbors : the communication ethics of Fred Rogers /

Fred Rogers is an American cultural and media icon, whose children's television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ran for more than thirty years (1967-2001) on the Public Broadcasting System. In this highly original book, communication scholar Alexandra C. Klarén shows how Rogers capt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klarén, Alexandra C. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2281926
Table of Contents:
  • Situating Rogers's vision: a sociocultural framing
  • Creating the dialogic: Christianity, child development, and the parasocial
  • Inside Mister Rogers' neighborhood: objects, play, and the cultural dialectic
  • "Won't you be my neighbor?": intergenerational dialogics in Neighborhood viewer mail
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.