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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... respondents produced. Research. where. audiences. produce. texts. The present study is not the first, of course, to get people to produce considered texts about their media consumption. Ien Ang's study Watching Dallas (1985, first published ...
... respondents produced. Research. where. audiences. produce. texts. The present study is not the first, of course, to get people to produce considered texts about their media consumption. Ien Ang's study Watching Dallas (1985, first published ...
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... respondents were producing written texts at home, to a particular question about television, because they were willing to participate in that type of research — which has obvious similarities with our present study. In a group of ...
... respondents were producing written texts at home, to a particular question about television, because they were willing to participate in that type of research — which has obvious similarities with our present study. In a group of ...
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... respondents, which had dropped to 427 respondents at the end of the project. The problem of attrition — respondents dropping out — is widely recognised as a serious problem for longitudinal studies (Dex 1991: 5), and the fact that 84 ...
... respondents, which had dropped to 427 respondents at the end of the project. The problem of attrition — respondents dropping out — is widely recognised as a serious problem for longitudinal studies (Dex 1991: 5), and the fact that 84 ...
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... respondents were fairly well educated; in 1995, 24 per cent had or were about to have a higher education degree, and a further 16 per cent had been in further education. Twenty-one per cent of the sample were in full-time education at ...
... respondents were fairly well educated; in 1995, 24 per cent had or were about to have a higher education degree, and a further 16 per cent had been in further education. Twenty-one per cent of the sample were in full-time education at ...
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... respondents' households, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Type of household Tracking Study UK ... respondents in this study had access to a range of equipment. In 1991, 31 per cent of respondents had one television in their ...
... respondents' households, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Type of household Tracking Study UK ... respondents in this study had access to a range of equipment. In 1991, 31 per cent of respondents had one television in their ...
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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