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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... enjoyed were transmitted in 'a period of frantic activity in their daily lives' (1982: 110). She also found that in response to this, many women developed interesting ways of half-watching or listening to the programme while they were ...
... enjoyed were transmitted in 'a period of frantic activity in their daily lives' (1982: 110). She also found that in response to this, many women developed interesting ways of half-watching or listening to the programme while they were ...
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... they liked or disliked the show. The forty-two letters which she received in reply formed the basis of her study. Ang's analysis of these viewers' texts suggested that people enjoyed and related to Dallas 10 Introduction.
... they liked or disliked the show. The forty-two letters which she received in reply formed the basis of her study. Ang's analysis of these viewers' texts suggested that people enjoyed and related to Dallas 10 Introduction.
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... enjoyed and related to Dallas because they found it emotionally realistic – not, of course, because they were oil millionaires themselves, but because the characters' series of domestic problems, rows, moments of happiness, and ...
... enjoyed and related to Dallas because they found it emotionally realistic – not, of course, because they were oil millionaires themselves, but because the characters' series of domestic problems, rows, moments of happiness, and ...
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... enjoy it. (21-year-old female learning support assistant) Breakfast time is usually very busy for most diarists, and if they do watch TV, it is only for brief periods, or used as background noise whilst other chores are done. In general ...
... enjoy it. (21-year-old female learning support assistant) Breakfast time is usually very busy for most diarists, and if they do watch TV, it is only for brief periods, or used as background noise whilst other chores are done. In general ...
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