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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... show each week — but also noted the ambivalent, love–hate relationship which she and others had with the series. Ang placed an advertisement in a Dutch women's magazine which invited people to write to her with their accounts of why ...
... show each week — but also noted the ambivalent, love–hate relationship which she and others had with the series. Ang placed an advertisement in a Dutch women's magazine which invited people to write to her with their accounts of why ...
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... shows the breakdown by age group at the start of the study. Table 1.1 Breakdown of respondents by age group, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Tracking Study UK populationa Age Under 16 9.0% 16–39 33% 40–64 29% 65+ 29% Note ...
... shows the breakdown by age group at the start of the study. Table 1.1 Breakdown of respondents by age group, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Tracking Study UK populationa Age Under 16 9.0% 16–39 33% 40–64 29% 65+ 29% Note ...
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... shows a bias towards students and retired people in the study overall. The income for the majority of diarists was £10,000–20,000 (25 per cent), with just over 17 per cent receiving between £5,000 and £10,000, and with as many as 27 per ...
... shows a bias towards students and retired people in the study overall. The income for the majority of diarists was £10,000–20,000 (25 per cent), with just over 17 per cent receiving between £5,000 and £10,000, and with as many as 27 per ...
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... shows that media activities are part of a family routine, and that this can help us to understand people's lifestyle choices, even though different family members perceive the routine differently. According to Rogge, the way that the ...
... shows that media activities are part of a family routine, and that this can help us to understand people's lifestyle choices, even though different family members perceive the routine differently. According to Rogge, the way that the ...
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... show now that her son was older and she was back at work. A 16-year-old school pupil tried to excuse her compulsion by emphasising the ironic distance between herself and the text: 'It is a little escape from reality and I find ...
... show now that her son was older and she was back at work. A 16-year-old school pupil tried to excuse her compulsion by emphasising the ironic distance between herself and the text: 'It is a little escape from reality and I find ...
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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