TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday LifeTV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period. Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of the most fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and life changes. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex and violence on television. A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes, TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today. |
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... Coronation Street which involved a young woman who was 'obsessed', Fatal Attraction style, with one of the male characters. Only those who had watched the show were asked to participate in this part of the study, and they remembered the ...
... Coronation Street which involved a young woman who was 'obsessed', Fatal Attraction style, with one of the male characters. Only those who had watched the show were asked to participate in this part of the study, and they remembered the ...
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... Coronation Street depending on the day of the week. We don't watch EastEnders as it is so depressing. The children play together running in and out of the front room. If there is a sitcom on before their bedtime they will sit still and ...
... Coronation Street depending on the day of the week. We don't watch EastEnders as it is so depressing. The children play together running in and out of the front room. If there is a sitcom on before their bedtime they will sit still and ...
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... Coronation Street will be on, no great attention need be paid to them. I am an Open University student so I study from 6.30pm to 9pm virtually every evening. Most of my viewing is programmes recorded earlier or from previous days ...
... Coronation Street will be on, no great attention need be paid to them. I am an Open University student so I study from 6.30pm to 9pm virtually every evening. Most of my viewing is programmes recorded earlier or from previous days ...
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Contents
News consumption and everyday life | |
Transitions and change | |
Companionship guilt and social interaction | |
Video and technology in the home | |
The retired and elderly audiences | |
Gender and Television | |
Catering for men with sport and sex? | |
Gender issues in the household | |
Television violence and other controversies | |
Perceptions of violence | |
Bad language sex and nudity and issues of taste | |
Studying violence and taste | |
Conclusions | |
Further methodological details | |
What do men and women actually watch? | |
Should we still classify soap operas as womens Programmes? | |
Index | |
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