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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... housewives and the mass media. She found that radio broadcasts provided a series of marker points in the day; housewives used the radio to alleviate stress and feelings of loneliness, and would often have it on in the background whilst ...
... housewives and the mass media. She found that radio broadcasts provided a series of marker points in the day; housewives used the radio to alleviate stress and feelings of loneliness, and would often have it on in the background whilst ...
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... housewife', whilst a man in the same position would most commonly see himself as 'unemployed'. Rather than imposing our own terms in order to avoid problems such as this, we decided to retain the respondents' own authentic descriptions ...
... housewife', whilst a man in the same position would most commonly see himself as 'unemployed'. Rather than imposing our own terms in order to avoid problems such as this, we decided to retain the respondents' own authentic descriptions ...
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... sit still and 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 24 Television and everyday life.
... sit still and 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 24 Television and everyday life.
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