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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... issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and the impact of viewers' own changing ideas and experiences. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex ...
... issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and the impact of viewers' own changing ideas and experiences. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex ...
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... issues in the household A change of gender Summary of key findings Television violence and other controversies Previous studies of television violence and issues of taste Media portrayals of violence Television drama Perceptions of ...
... issues in the household A change of gender Summary of key findings Television violence and other controversies Previous studies of television violence and issues of taste Media portrayals of violence Television drama Perceptions of ...
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... issues, with children often providing some of the best quotes. Ten-year-old Helen Steel, for example, provided this insight into family life around the television set: I like everything just like my Dad, even if he does not like the ...
... issues, with children often providing some of the best quotes. Ten-year-old Helen Steel, for example, provided this insight into family life around the television set: I like everything just like my Dad, even if he does not like the ...
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... at first, broadcasters did not feel any need to seek out their audience's attitudes and feelings. For ten years the BBC ignored the issue of audience research entirely: 'When anyone suggested that [the Corporation] was 2 Introduction.
... at first, broadcasters did not feel any need to seek out their audience's attitudes and feelings. For ten years the BBC ignored the issue of audience research entirely: 'When anyone suggested that [the Corporation] was 2 Introduction.
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... issue of gender into a field which was dominated by awful pseudoscientific, individualistic, psychological approaches to media audiences. (The shame is that his polarised report of gender differences sat all too easily with the ...
... issue of gender into a field which was dominated by awful pseudoscientific, individualistic, psychological approaches to media audiences. (The shame is that his polarised report of gender differences sat all too easily with the ...
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