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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... seen to share some similarities with survey and focus group research used today to judge the opinion of the people. There are also some similarities between mass observation and the BFI Audience Tracking Study, which also used diaries ...
... seen to share some similarities with survey and focus group research used today to judge the opinion of the people. There are also some similarities between mass observation and the BFI Audience Tracking Study, which also used diaries ...
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... seen within the broader family or household context, which would still be a significant improvement over the approach which assumed that the individual viewer would be 'making programme choices as if he or she were a rational consumer ...
... seen within the broader family or household context, which would still be a significant improvement over the approach which assumed that the individual viewer would be 'making programme choices as if he or she were a rational consumer ...
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... seen that in the present study, we found that this was not usually the case, and we found little evidence of the polarised gender preferences (men liking realism, women loving romance) which Morley also describes. Although Morley goes ...
... seen that in the present study, we found that this was not usually the case, and we found little evidence of the polarised gender preferences (men liking realism, women loving romance) which Morley also describes. Although Morley goes ...
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... seen to be lacking in its account of the social environment, television and everyday life. Second there are the studies that focus on effects and the audience, such as cultivation analysis (Gerbner et al. 1980, 1986; Morgan and ...
... seen to be lacking in its account of the social environment, television and everyday life. Second there are the studies that focus on effects and the audience, such as cultivation analysis (Gerbner et al. 1980, 1986; Morgan and ...
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... spent time with mentally ill people and had not found them to be violent, and yet they still associated mental illness with the kind of violent 'psycho' seen in many movies. Used in conjunction with other interview-style methods, then, ...
... spent time with mentally ill people and had not found them to be violent, and yet they still associated mental illness with the kind of violent 'psycho' seen in many movies. Used in conjunction with other interview-style methods, then, ...
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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