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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... parent families, student accommodation, and households with only one adult, as well as the more traditional composition of the nuclear family, reflecting the changing nature of household composition in the 1990s. Table 1.2 shows how the ...
... parent families, student accommodation, and households with only one adult, as well as the more traditional composition of the nuclear family, reflecting the changing nature of household composition in the 1990s. Table 1.2 shows how the ...
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... parents 2% Others 23% 26% 28% 24% 10% 12% Notes: a Social Trends 1991 bMore than two adults, including families with non-dependent children, student households, halls of residence, etc. In terms of technology, the respondents in this ...
... parents 2% Others 23% 26% 28% 24% 10% 12% Notes: a Social Trends 1991 bMore than two adults, including families with non-dependent children, student households, halls of residence, etc. In terms of technology, the respondents in this ...
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... parent families, the 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 ...
... parent families, the 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 ...
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... parents, students living in shared accommodation, retired people, and parents with children, negotiate changes to this schedule, changes that can be seen to be part of what Scannell calls 'life time'. The BBC conducted a survey in 1979 ...
... parents, students living in shared accommodation, retired people, and parents with children, negotiate changes to this schedule, changes that can be seen to be part of what Scannell calls 'life time'. The BBC conducted a survey in 1979 ...
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... parents, students living in rented accommodation, people living alone, all report highly individual accounts of how television is part of their daily routine. Therefore, in this chapter we shall show that television viewing patterns are ...
... parents, students living in rented accommodation, people living alone, all report highly individual accounts of how television is part of their daily routine. Therefore, in this chapter we shall show that television viewing patterns are ...
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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