Television and its Audience

Barwise, Patrick; Ehrenberg, A. S. C.

doi:10.4135/9781446280041

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“…Press, 1989Press, & 1991aSeiter, Borchers, Kreutzner & Warth, 1989;Jensen, 1990Jensen, & 1995Kim, 2004). However, other research has identified similar "clustering" effects linked to gender (Hobson, 1980;Morley, 1986;Brown, Childers, Bauman, & Koch, 1990;Livingstone, 1994;Zwaga, 1994), race and ethnicity (Brown & Schulze, 1990;Jhally & Lewis, 1992;Schlesinger, Dobash, Dobash & Weaver, 1992;Gillespie, 1995;Hunt, 1997), and age (Comstock, Chaffee, Katzman, McCombs & Roberts, 1978;Barwise & Ehrenberg, 1988;Press, 1991b;Willis, 1995;Riggs, 1996). Further, a growing body of work highlights connections between divergent receptions and social group memberships that disrupt traditional sociological categories, including political interest (Morley, 1980a;Fenton, 1990a and1990b;Roscoe et al, 1995), moral and/or political belief (Condit, 1989;Press, 1991a;Liebes & Ribak, 1994), experience of male violence (Schlesinger, Dobash, Dobash & Weaver, 1992), degree of feminist consciousness (Ford & Latour, 1993), sexual orientation (Cohen, 1991;Feuer, 1995), religious culture (Hamilton & Rubin, 1992;Stout, 1994;Valenti & Stout, 1996), and personal psychological characteristics (Livingstone, 1990).…”

Section: Modes Of Receptionmentioning

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Modes of Reception: A Consolidated Analytical Framework

Michelle

2007

The Communication Review

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Drawing on a synthesis of existing models of reception and findings from audience research, this paper outlines a conceptual framework for the (meta)analysis of existing and new reception data which delineates four primary modes of viewer interpretation and response: Transparent, referential, mediated, and discursive. I argue that the adoption of this consolidated analytical framework may facilitate a more systematic investigation into how viewers' interpretations are shaped by social group memberships, cultural competencies and discursive affiliations.

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Section: Modes Of Receptionmentioning

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Modes of Reception: A Consolidated Analytical Framework

Michelle

2007

The Communication Review

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“…Existing media research gives us an overview of the behaviour, beliefs and attitudes of television viewers (Barwise and Ehrenberg, 1988;Comstock and Scharrer, 1999, Morley 1986, Ang 1991, Alasuutari 1999. Such research offers particularised insights into the everyday activities of television viewers, reminding us that a single entity as the television audience does not exist.…”

Section: Researching Unknown Audiences: Accessing Stories Of Informalmentioning

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Filtering informal learning in everyday life: invoking ordinariness and moving to civic engagement

Grummell

2010

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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This article explores the role of informal learning from television as it is anchored within the ordinariness of daily life. It examines the consequences for pedagogy and civic engagement, questioning how informal learning from television can enhance civic engagement. For many, this learning was localized through personalized and interpersonal relations of everyday life. Learning was not viewed as a distant institutional force, but as an embedded part of an ordinary life. The invoking of ordinariness rendered the relationship between learning and civic engagement unproblematic. Learning was localized in subjective terms for self-identity and interpersonal relations rather than critically reflecting on the power structures of everyday life.

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“…Mainly due to technological advances, notably digital cable and satellite broadcasting, television viewers across the globe have more channels and programs from which to choose. The competition among broadcasters has also intensified as the trend of deregulation continues and as U.S. style advertising-supported networks become increasingly significant worldwide (Vogel, 2001;Walker and Ferguson, 1998; Barwise and Ehrenberg, 1988). However, the effects of competition on viewer well-being are complex.…”

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