Research, court decisions, databases, and scholarly articles
The impacts of noise and excessive TV consumption have been widely studied and it would be impractical to include more than a sampling of the available research and other resources here. Studies on noise and TV play into the issue of audience captivity because captive-audience platforms are in their essence noise- and TV-delivery mechanisms. If there are health and social consequences to noise and TV, then making people subject to noise and TV without their consent is to subject them unwillingly to those health and social consequences. Thus, any discussion about audience captivity has to include a discussion about the negative impacts of noise and TV.
There is comparatively little research specifically on audience captivity, a relatively new trend, at least in the way that we care about it here. A U.S. Supreme Court case that involved piped-in commercial radio programming on a Washington, D.C., commuter train might be the first specific case involving audience captivity of the type that we’re concerned with. The Supreme Court in that case ruled in favor of audience captivity, but two justices were very much disturbed by that outcome. The decision in that case, along with the dissent, is the first link here.
Audience captivity
What is Captive-Audience Media?, Media by Choice, May 21, 2009
Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia et al. v. Pollak et al, U.S. Supreme Court, 1952
Kovacs v. Cooper, 336 U.S. 77, U.S. Supreme Court, 1949
The Plight of the Captive Auditor, Charles L. Black, Jr., Columbia Law Review, 1953
Database of TV-ruined Outings, White Dot
Noise
Local Noise Ordinances, Noise Free America
Acceptable Noise Levels, World Health Organization
Physiological Impacts of Noise, No Noise
Physiological Impacts of Noise, EHP Online
Report on Boom Cars, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Malicious Boom Car Ads, Noise Free America
Industry Response to Boom Car Ordinances, Mobile Enhancement Retailers Association
Boom Car Concerns, Citizens Against Audio Trespass
Television
Television Addiction is No Mere Metaphor, Scientific American, Feb. 2002
When the Television is Always On: Heavy Television Exposure and Young Children’s Development, Center on Media and Child Health, 2005
Television and Health, American Public Health Association
