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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... respondents' divergent comments. Without wanting to sound too selfpitying, we can note that the more data a researcher has, the more difficult it becomes to come up with distinctive generalisations – because the general conclusion that ...
... respondents' divergent comments. Without wanting to sound too selfpitying, we can note that the more data a researcher has, the more difficult it becomes to come up with distinctive generalisations – because the general conclusion that ...
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... respondents had been recruited via an extremely visible advertising campaign – in the press, on posters and leaflets, and in particular on television itself, with announcements placed in peak slots next to mainstream programmes. This ...
... respondents had been recruited via an extremely visible advertising campaign – in the press, on posters and leaflets, and in particular on television itself, with announcements placed in peak slots next to mainstream programmes. This ...
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... respondents were fairly well educated; in 1995, 24 per cent had or were about to have a higher education degree, and a further 16 per cent had been in further education. Twenty-one per cent of the sample were in full-time education at ...
... respondents were fairly well educated; in 1995, 24 per cent had or were about to have a higher education degree, and a further 16 per cent had been in further education. Twenty-one per cent of the sample were in full-time education at ...
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... respondents' households, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Type of household Tracking Study UK ... respondents in this study had access to a range of equipment. In 1991, 31 per cent of respondents had one television in their ...
... respondents' households, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Type of household Tracking Study UK ... respondents in this study had access to a range of equipment. In 1991, 31 per cent of respondents had one television in their ...
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... respondents could note the programmes they watched on the day in question, with whom they watched them, the amount of attention given to these and whether they had planned to watch them. (Petrie and Willis 1995:4) Various different ...
... respondents could note the programmes they watched on the day in question, with whom they watched them, the amount of attention given to these and whether they had planned to watch them. (Petrie and Willis 1995:4) Various different ...
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