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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... TV series. At the age of 10 one of our favourite publications was the BBC book Points of View — based on the long-running show which airs viewers' letters about BBC programmes — published in 1981 (£1.50), and edited by its then ...
... TV series. At the age of 10 one of our favourite publications was the BBC book Points of View — based on the long-running show which airs viewers' letters about BBC programmes — published in 1981 (£1.50), and edited by its then ...
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... programmes they liked to watch on television (comedy series, or soap operas) and the programmes their husbands watched ... favourite soap on the television. Hobson found that: 'watching television is part of the everyday life of viewers ...
... programmes they liked to watch on television (comedy series, or soap operas) and the programmes their husbands watched ... favourite soap on the television. Hobson found that: 'watching television is part of the everyday life of viewers ...
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Television, Culture and Everyday Life David Gauntlett, Annette Hill. know the ... programmes that follow, this diarist is not really giving the TV her full ... favourite programme, and as many as a further 31 per cent said that that ...
Television, Culture and Everyday Life David Gauntlett, Annette Hill. know the ... programmes that follow, this diarist is not really giving the TV her full ... favourite programme, and as many as a further 31 per cent said that that ...
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... programmes'. But the serial's appeal was not limited to young people. Perhaps surprisingly, older viewers did not worry about its 'addictive' qualities and would list it as one of their favourite programmes, whereas younger viewers ...
... programmes'. But the serial's appeal was not limited to young people. Perhaps surprisingly, older viewers did not worry about its 'addictive' qualities and would list it as one of their favourite programmes, whereas younger viewers ...
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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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