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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... Patterns of news consumption News consumption: young adults News consumption: adults Television news and everyday life Summary of key findings 4. Transitions and change Previous studies of television and life changes Young adults ...
... Patterns of news consumption News consumption: young adults News consumption: adults Television news and everyday life Summary of key findings 4. Transitions and change Previous studies of television and life changes Young adults ...
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... patterns of everyday life), questions of agency, and the relationship between domesticity and consumption. However, Silverstone's theoretical account of television and everyday life could be regarded as premature. Before we can begin to ...
... patterns of everyday life), questions of agency, and the relationship between domesticity and consumption. However, Silverstone's theoretical account of television and everyday life could be regarded as premature. Before we can begin to ...
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... patterns are not standardised, and that watching television is not a passive activity. TELEVISION. AND. THE. ORGANISATION. OF. TIME. In this study, every diary contained a question asking respondents to write about their typical day.
... patterns are not standardised, and that watching television is not a passive activity. TELEVISION. AND. THE. ORGANISATION. OF. TIME. In this study, every diary contained a question asking respondents to write about their typical day.
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... daily routine. In many ways, certain television programmes helped him to do this. This Morning is a case in point: this diarist could tell whether his wife had stayed at home, or gone out by her This Morning consumption pattern.
... daily routine. In many ways, certain television programmes helped him to do this. This Morning is a case in point: this diarist could tell whether his wife had stayed at home, or gone out by her This Morning consumption pattern.
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... pattern. The way in which soaps feature as part of a family routine is something that is discussed later on in this chapter. What is interesting here is that families are engaged in a pattern of work and leisure time that is very ...
... pattern. The way in which soaps feature as part of a family routine is something that is discussed later on in this chapter. What is interesting here is that families are engaged in a pattern of work and leisure time that is very ...
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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