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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... whilst I have been working on the project. Graham Roberts has been a lovely and supportive colleague and friend. Justin Charlesworth and Andrew Thorpe again provided valuable practical help with shelving the diaries, and with software ...
... whilst I have been working on the project. Graham Roberts has been a lovely and supportive colleague and friend. Justin Charlesworth and Andrew Thorpe again provided valuable practical help with shelving the diaries, and with software ...
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... whilst factors such as class, ethnicity and gender will have some impact upon which 'cultural codes' a person has access to, we also have to consider that individual's own responses to their social situation. 'To paraphrase Sartre ...
... whilst factors such as class, ethnicity and gender will have some impact upon which 'cultural codes' a person has access to, we also have to consider that individual's own responses to their social situation. 'To paraphrase Sartre ...
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... gendered attitudes to the VCR, with men considering the watching of an action movie on video a welcome leisure event, whilst women are less interested in the VCR generally, and since the home is not a site of leisure for.
... gendered attitudes to the VCR, with men considering the watching of an action movie on video a welcome leisure event, whilst women are less interested in the VCR generally, and since the home is not a site of leisure for.
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... whilst they completed household chores. Hobson also discovered that women clearly saw a difference between the type of programmes they liked to watch on television (comedy series, or soap operas) and the programmes their husbands ...
... whilst they completed household chores. Hobson also discovered that women clearly saw a difference between the type of programmes they liked to watch on television (comedy series, or soap operas) and the programmes their husbands ...
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... whilst the child focused on some other activity, and at other times television simply became a 'background' to family life, which carried on around the set (1986: 133–4). Talk about TV with friends was found to be a part of everyday ...
... whilst the child focused on some other activity, and at other times television simply became a 'background' to family life, which carried on around the set (1986: 133–4). Talk about TV with friends was found to be a part of everyday ...
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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