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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... elderly audiences What does it mean to be old? Life In Retirement Elderly people's relationship with television The elderly on watching television Television viewing in later life: some theory Summary of key findings 8. Gender and ...
... elderly audiences What does it mean to be old? Life In Retirement Elderly people's relationship with television The elderly on watching television Television viewing in later life: some theory Summary of key findings 8. Gender and ...
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... elderly woman, who served tea, and put her knitting aside to watch the programme uninterrupted, and watching it with a woman who was 'serving the evening meal, feeding her five- and three-year-old daughters and attempting to watch the ...
... elderly woman, who served tea, and put her knitting aside to watch the programme uninterrupted, and watching it with a woman who was 'serving the evening meal, feeding her five- and three-year-old daughters and attempting to watch the ...
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... elderly audience, since there has been little written about this sector of the population in relation to media consumption, and because the Audience Tracking Study provided a rich seam of information on this group. Again, we explore ...
... elderly audience, since there has been little written about this sector of the population in relation to media consumption, and because the Audience Tracking Study provided a rich seam of information on this group. Again, we explore ...
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... elderly and people living alone, as well as married couples with children. It follows that if British households take a variety of forms, then these people must also conduct their lives in a range of different ways. Television can be ...
... elderly and people living alone, as well as married couples with children. It follows that if British households take a variety of forms, then these people must also conduct their lives in a range of different ways. Television can be ...
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... elderly single person's day can also be punctuated and in some ways shaped by media 'events': I am a pensioner and I live alone so I find my TV set is a vital piece of household equipment, although my radio is a close second. Wednesday ...
... elderly single person's day can also be punctuated and in some ways shaped by media 'events': I am a pensioner and I live alone so I find my TV set is a vital piece of household equipment, although my radio is a close second. Wednesday ...
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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