TV living : television, culture and everyday life

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TV living : television, culture and everyday life

David Gauntlett and Annette Hill

Routledge, in association with the British Film Institute, 1999

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-305) and index

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Description

TV 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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Television and everyday life 4 Transitions and change 5 Television's personal meanings: companionship, guilt and social interaction 6 Video and technology in the home 7 The retired and elderly audiences 8 Gender and television 9 Television violence and other controversies 10 Conclusions

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