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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... enjoyed and related to Dallas because they found it emotionally realistic — not, of course, because they were oil millionaires themselves, but because the characters' series of domestic problems, rows, moments of happiness, and ...
... enjoyed and related to Dallas because they found it emotionally realistic — not, of course, because they were oil millionaires themselves, but because the characters' series of domestic problems, rows, moments of happiness, and ...
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... enjoy it. (21-year-old female learning support assistant) Breakfast time is usually very busy for most diarists, and if they do watch TV, it is only for brief periods, or used as background noise whilst other chores are done. In general ...
... enjoy it. (21-year-old female learning support assistant) Breakfast time is usually very busy for most diarists, and if they do watch TV, it is only for brief periods, or used as background noise whilst other chores are done. In general ...
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... enjoyed the repeat screening of The Village (Tuesdays at 5.30 on BBC2) having completely missed it on the first showing — although unless it's a particular old film we avoid TV till 6pm. (68-year-old semi-retired male social work ...
... enjoyed the repeat screening of The Village (Tuesdays at 5.30 on BBC2) having completely missed it on the first showing — although unless it's a particular old film we avoid TV till 6pm. (68-year-old semi-retired male social work ...
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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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