In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital …'s decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television … watching television and listening to radio, is associated with substantially lower levels of participation in social activities …

surveys the impact of prime time television's impact on a sample of urban of rural women. Identifying television as an … messages communicated through commercials regarding women, and the gender insensitivity of television programs around …