Working‐class women in a middle‐class world: The impact of television on modes of reasoning about abortion

Press, Andrea L.

doi:10.1080/15295039109366807

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“…These relationships reflect the insights of several feminist and sociological media studies scholars who assert that certain genres of entertainment content have a pronounced effect on opinions toward women and their role in society (e.g., Condit, 1990;Dow, 1996;Press, 1991). Notably, this pattern of associations can be observed across three different national data sets after extensive controls, providing strong support for the hypotheses tested in this study.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

Political Implications of Prime-Time Drama and Sitcom Use: Genres of Representation and Opinions Concerning Women's Rights

Holbert

Shah

Kwak

2003

Journal of Communication

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Scholars studying the content of televised entertainment programming have long argued for a relationship between exposure to sexist media representations of women and opinions concerning women's status in society, yet research has rarely examined prime-time television audiences and their sociopolitical opinions concerning women's rights. To explore these relationships, we engaged in a secondary analysis of the 1997, 1998 Using hierarchical regression, we found three forms of entertainment television use (traditional drama, progressive drama, and situation comedy) that retain statistically significant, unique relationships with opinions concerning women's rights, even after accounting for variables thought to shape patterns of media use and influence support for women's rights. Further, regression path analysis revealed that these three forms also mediate relationships between various demographic, situational, and orientational variables and the criterion variable.Prime-time television fare has long been thought to construct and contest sex roles and provide a forum where issues of gender equity and reproductive rights are discussed (Dow, 1996;Tuchman, 1978). Prime-time programs touch on a range of topics concerning women: professional roles, domestic responsibilities, and sexual mores. Indeed, media cultivation studies have observed sexist portrayals of women across a range of television genres and used this to support their assertion that general television consumption adversely affects opinion about gender equal-

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

Political Implications of Prime-Time Drama and Sitcom Use: Genres of Representation and Opinions Concerning Women's Rights

Holbert

Shah

Kwak

2003

Journal of Communication

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“…Numerous studies follow Morley's suggestion that socioeconomic class is the most significant factor in the production of distinct "clusterings" in audience reception (e.g. 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).…”

Section: Modes Of Receptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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

confidence: 99%

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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“…Consequently, the groups constructed were homogenous in their political, educational, ethnic or social class compositions and the voice participants use is analyzed as representative of their sociodemographic categories. Here the focus group is used because it is seen to facilitate people's expression of identity in order to show how they make ideological use of television programs, an approach which has been elaborated to include other sociological dimensions of identity such as gender (Seiter et al, 1989) or gender and class together (Press, 1991).…”

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