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 captu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Klarén, Alexandra C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019].
Subjects:	Mister Rogers' neighborhood (Television program) > Social aspects. Mister Rogers' neighborhood (Television program) > History and criticism. Television and children.

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.