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Television and New Media Audiences

By Ellen Seiter

Television and New Media Audiences

By Ellen Seiter

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Why is talk about television forbidden at certain schools? Why does a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year-old child? Why would retired men turn to daytime soap operas for entertainment? Cliches about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, the author explains what audience research tells us about the uses of technologies in the domestic sphere and the classroom, the relationship between gender and genre, and the varied interpretation of media technologies and media forms.

Television and New Media Audiences reviews the most important research on television audiences and recommends the use of ethnographic, longitudinal methods for the study of media consumption and computer use at home as well as in the workplace.

The book discusses reactions of audiences to many internationally known television programmes including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Street Fighter, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, X-Men, Sesame Street, Dallas, Star Trek, The Cosby Show, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, National Geographic, etc.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
168
Release Date:
1999-02-25
Publication Date:
1998-12-17
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198711425
ISBN13:
9780198711421
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
423 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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