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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... watching Crossroads with an elderly woman, who served tea, and put her knitting aside to watch the programme uninterrupted, and watching it with a woman who was 'serving the evening meal, feeding her five- and three-year-old daughters ...
... watching Crossroads with an elderly woman, who served tea, and put her knitting aside to watch the programme uninterrupted, and watching it with a woman who was 'serving the evening meal, feeding her five- and three-year-old daughters ...
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... viewing was an active or passive activity in the home. They considered when people watch television, who they watch television with, and what they choose to do whilst watching television. They found that '63.5 per cent of the time ...
... viewing was an active or passive activity in the home. They considered when people watch television, who they watch television with, and what they choose to do whilst watching television. They found that '63.5 per cent of the time ...
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... watch it with a cup of coffee and a bar of chocolate. Often I time my meals to coincide with something good. I like eating and watching television. I also often iron whilst watching. When I clean I prefer listening to music. (24-year ...
... watch it with a cup of coffee and a bar of chocolate. Often I time my meals to coincide with something good. I like eating and watching television. I also often iron whilst watching. When I clean I prefer listening to music. (24-year ...
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... watch it. The TV is on early evening, but often just as 'background' when no-one is really watching it. (30-year-old housewife) We can see a very similar account being given for early evening schedules from this young woman, who uses TV ...
... watch it. The TV is on early evening, but often just as 'background' when no-one is really watching it. (30-year-old housewife) We can see a very similar account being given for early evening schedules from this young woman, who uses TV ...
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... watch television in the evenings. (34-year-old female secretary) What we can see from these accounts is how families ... watch Home and Away. 5.30 pm Mum comes home and prepares tea. 6.00 pm We eat our tea. 6.30 pm My sister and I go off ...
... watch television in the evenings. (34-year-old female secretary) What we can see from these accounts is how families ... watch Home and Away. 5.30 pm Mum comes home and prepares tea. 6.00 pm We eat our tea. 6.30 pm My sister and I go off ...
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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