Class and gender in the hegemonic process: class differences in women's perceptions of television realism and identification with television characters

Press, Andrea L.

doi:10.1177/016344389011002006

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“…Mediated depictions are perceived to have high levels of realism when they represent something typical and probable (frequently occurring), factual (having a specific correlate in the physical world), involving (eliciting identification), pervasive (creating a compelling and coherent illusion), or consistent (Busselle & Greenberg, 2000;Busselle, Ryabovolova, & Wilson, 2004;Garau et al, 2003;Hall, 2003;Pina, Cerezo, & Serón, 2000;Press, 1989;Shapiro & Chock, 2003). Media stimuli higher on perceived realism are more likely to evoke stereotypical scripts and heuristics than media stimuli lower on perceived realism (Busselle, 2001).…”

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The Effect of Image Features on Judgments of Homophily, Credibility, and Intention to Use as Avatars in Future Interactions

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The Effect of Image Features on Judgments of Homophily, Credibility, and Intention to Use as Avatars in Future Interactions

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“…One of the contrasts between the different interpretations was in the degree to which the programs were seen an unbiased or veridical representation of the events they described. Press (1989) found that working-and middle-class women differed in their perceptions of the realism of a series of situation comedies, even though all of the respondents understood the programs to be fiction. Conceptualizing realism as factuality does not fully capture the ways in which audiences evaluate the relationship between media texts and the world.…”

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Reading Realism: Audiences' Evaluations of the Reality of Media Texts

Hall

2003

Journal of Communication

149

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Forty‐seven young adults participated in a series of focus group interviews designed to investigate how audiences conceptualize media realism. Contrasts in the way realism was defined and applied in the interviews and explicit statements by the participants supported previous findings that realism perceptions are multidimensional. The participants' discussions encompassed 6 distinct means of evaluating the realism of media texts: plausibility, typicality, factuality, emotional involvement, narrative consistency, and perceptual persuasiveness. Plausibility was the most readily discussed conceptualization. Different realism conceptualizations tended to be used for different media genres and the conceptualizations tended to focus on different features of the evaluated text. This article discusses the relationship of audience perceptions to scholars' conceptualizations and addresses implications for measuring media realism.

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“…nent studies of media reception (e.g., Liebes & Katz, 1990;Press, 1989;Radway, 1983) as well as several studies of media effects (e.g., Huesmann et al, 1984;Maccoby & Wilson, 1957;Sheehan, 1983;Wiegman, Kuttschreuter, & Baarda, 1992) accorded identification an important role in the effects of media. Huesmann et al (1984) found that identifying with aggressive characters on TV increased the learning of aggressive behavior by children.…”

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“…As Press (1989) showed, perceived realism is a very important feature to television viewers in their reactions to texts in general and, more specifically, to characters. Realism, however, does not necessarily mean the similarity of a character's behavior to the real life of an audience member; it may be a similarity to a stereotype held by a viewer (e.g., a poor viewer) regarding the life of another social group (e.g., a rich character).…”

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Defining Identification: A Theoretical Look at the Identification of Audiences With Media Characters

Cohen

2001

Mass Communication and Society

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In this article I argue that although the notion of identification with media characters is widely discussed in media research, it has not been carefully conceptualized or rigorously tested in empirical audience studies. This study presents a theoretical discussion of identification, including a definition of identification and a discussion of the consequences of identification with media characters for the development of identity and socialization processes. It is suggested that a useful distinction can be made between identification and other types of reactions that media audiences have to media characters. A critical look at media research involving identification exposes the inherent conceptual problems in this research and leads to hypotheses regarding the antecedents and consequences of identification with media characters. The importance of a theory of identification to media research and communication research, more broadly, is presented.

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Class and gender in the hegemonic process: class differences in women's perceptions of television realism and identification with television characters

Cited by 32 publications

References 3 publications

The Effect of Image Features on Judgments of Homophily, Credibility, and Intention to Use as Avatars in Future Interactions

The Effect of Image Features on Judgments of Homophily, Credibility, and Intention to Use as Avatars in Future Interactions

Reading Realism: Audiences' Evaluations of the Reality of Media Texts

Defining Identification: A Theoretical Look at the Identification of Audiences With Media Characters

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