TV living : television, culture and everyday life /
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| Author / Creator: | Gauntlett, David. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge in association with the British Film Institute, 1999. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114502 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Studying television and everyday life
- The Audience Tracking Study methodology
- 2. Television and everyday life
- Television and the organisation of time
- Household life and television
- Television, the household and everyday life
- Summary of key findings
- 3. News consumption and everyday life
- Previous studies of news consumption
- News and current affairs
- Patterns of news consumption
- News consumption: young adults
- News consumption: adults
- Television news and everyday life
- Summary of key findings
- 4. Transitions and change
- Previous studies of television and life changes
- Young adults: transition and change
- Adults: transition and change
- Couples, life changes and television
- Transitions and change in life before 50
- Summary of key findings
- 5. Television's personal meanings: companionship, guilt and social interaction
- What television means to individuals
- Television guilt
- Talking about television
- Television and everyday life: meaning and identity
- Television and identity in the Audience Tracking Study Diaries
- Television's personal meanings
- Summary of key findings
- 6. Video and technology in the home
- The rise of video
- Video and everyday life in the Audience Tracking Study
- Satellite and cable
- Other television technologies, and the future
- Enough technology?
- Summary of key findings
- 7. The retired and elderly audiences
- What does it mean to be old?
- Life in retirement
- Elderly people's relationship with television
- The elderly on watching television
- Television viewing in later life: some theory
- Summary of key findings
- 8. Gender and television
- Previous studies of gender and television
- What do men and women actually watch?
- Should we talk about 'women's' and 'men's' interests?
- Is television output biased towards women or men?
- Should we still classify soap operas as 'women's programmes'?
- The representation of women
- Catering for men with sport and sex?
- The representation of homosexuality
- Gender issues in the household
- A change of gender
- Summary of key findings
- 9. Television violence and other controversies
- Previous studies of television violence and issues of taste
- Media portrayals of violence
- Television drama
- Perceptions of violence
- Regulation and self-regulation
- Bad language, sex and nudity, and issues of taste
- Studying violence and taste
- Summary of key findings
- 10. Conclusions
- Time and change
- Gender: changing landscapes
- Identity
- Seduction
- A fragmented audience?
- Reflections on writing diaries and the research process
- Television consumers: consumed by television?
- Appendix. Further methodological details
- References
- Index