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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... diarists, even though condensing all of that material into the confines of one book was, frankly, a struggle. The method used in the present study, although conducted here on an unusually large scale, is not entirely new. In his account ...
... diarists, even though condensing all of that material into the confines of one book was, frankly, a struggle. The method used in the present study, although conducted here on an unusually large scale, is not entirely new. In his account ...
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... diarists to indicate that the British public is discerning in its television viewing and has 'a firm idea of what constitutes acceptable, and trashy, television' (1989: xiv). In many ways the One Day in the Life of Television project ...
... diarists to indicate that the British public is discerning in its television viewing and has 'a firm idea of what constitutes acceptable, and trashy, television' (1989: xiv). In many ways the One Day in the Life of Television project ...
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... 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 cent of respondents earning less than £5,000 in a year, again reflecting the number of low-income ...
... 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 cent of respondents earning less than £5,000 in a year, again reflecting the number of low-income ...
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... diarists had managed to write a collective three and a half million words. The question was: how were we to become familiar with this data, and how would we best navigate our way through the diaries? Should we consider each individual ...
... diarists had managed to write a collective three and a half million words. The question was: how were we to become familiar with this data, and how would we best navigate our way through the diaries? Should we consider each individual ...
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Television, Culture and Everyday Life David Gauntlett, Annette Hill. The same diarist would switch on her bedroom TV ... diarists, and if they do watch TV, it is only for brief periods, or used as background noise whilst other chores are ...
Television, Culture and Everyday Life David Gauntlett, Annette Hill. The same diarist would switch on her bedroom TV ... diarists, and if they do watch TV, it is only for brief periods, or used as background noise whilst other chores are ...
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