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Television and New Media Audiences : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198711414 : 0198711417 : 01 Mar 1999 : Why is talk about television forbidden at some 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? Through case studies, Ellen Seiter explains what audience research tells us about gender, class, and the significance of television and computers at home and in the workplace.Read More

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    Through case studies this work 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.

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    Why is talk about television forbidden at Montessori 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 a range of fascinating case studies, Ellen Seiter 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 such internationally known television program as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Street Fighter, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, X-Men, Sesame Street, Dallas, Star Trek, The Cosby Show, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and National Geographic.

  • 0198711417
  • 9780198711414
  • Ellen Seiter
  • 17 December 1998
  • Clarendon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 168
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