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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783942603321

Autore

Gauntlett David

Titolo

TV living : television, culture, and everyday life / / David Gauntlett and Annette Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge in association with the British Film Institute, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-66790-6

1-134-66791-4

1-280-33373-1

0-203-15878-4

0-203-01172-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HillAnnette

Disciplina

302.23/45/0941

Soggetti

Television viewers - Great Britain - Attitudes

Television - Social aspects - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Television and everyday life; News consumption and everyday life; Transitions and change; Television's personal meanings: companionship, guilt and social interaction; Video and technology in the home; The retired and elderly audiences; Gender and television; Television violence and other controversies; Conclusions; Appendix: Further methodological details; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 televi