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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... show, for having assumed that 'deep structures' such as class positions would have direct 'effects' upon individuals' responses to the material. He subsequently acknowledges that whilst factors such as class, ethnicity and gender will ...
... show, for having assumed that 'deep structures' such as class positions would have direct 'effects' upon individuals' responses to the material. He subsequently acknowledges that whilst factors such as class, ethnicity and gender will ...
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... show each week – but also noted the ambivalent, love–hate relationship which she and others had with the series. Ang placed an advertisement in a Dutch women's magazine which invited people to write to her with their accounts of why ...
... show each week – but also noted the ambivalent, love–hate relationship which she and others had with the series. Ang placed an advertisement in a Dutch women's magazine which invited people to write to her with their accounts of why ...
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... show clearly didn't feel that this should stop them watching it. Inevitably, perhaps, Ang has to observe that there is no singular explanation for the popularity of Dallas. Each viewer 'has his or her own more or less unique ...
... show clearly didn't feel that this should stop them watching it. Inevitably, perhaps, Ang has to observe that there is no singular explanation for the popularity of Dallas. Each viewer 'has his or her own more or less unique ...
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... shows the breakdown by age group at the start of the study. Table 1.1 Breakdown of respondents by age group, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Age Tracking Study UK populationa Under 16 9% 29% 16–39 33% 35% 40–64 29% 29% 65+ ...
... shows the breakdown by age group at the start of the study. Table 1.1 Breakdown of respondents by age group, compared with the general UK population, 1991 Age Tracking Study UK populationa Under 16 9% 29% 16–39 33% 35% 40–64 29% 29% 65+ ...
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... shows a bias towards students and retired people in the study overall. The income for the majority of 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 ...
... shows a bias towards students and retired people in the study overall. The income for the majority of 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 ...
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