Ellen Seiter
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198711421
- eISBN:
- 9780191694905
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198711421.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
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 ...
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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? Clichés about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, this book 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. This book 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, and National Geographic.Less
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? Clichés about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, this book 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. This book 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, and National Geographic.
Dan Laughey
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623808
- eISBN:
- 9780748653034
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623808.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses how music media are used and become influential in various everyday contexts. Contrary to the majority of studies into youth subcultures, it details the extent to which ...
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This chapter discusses how music media are used and become influential in various everyday contexts. Contrary to the majority of studies into youth subcultures, it details the extent to which domestic, family experiences are reported by respondents to have influenced their music consumer choices. Having outlined these media uses and influences, the implications of a paradoxical trend for growing public uses of music media that wield their strongest influence in the privacy of young people's domestic lives are assessed. The growing public presence of non-terrestrial music television channels and the Internet across young people's everyday educational, work and leisure contexts seems to be stimulated by a desire to consume mediated technologies that might be excluded from domestic settings at the will of parents. The discussion then turns to the extent to which media consumer literacy is able to be productive and even innovative in the formation of music tastes and practices, regardless of ostensibly omnipotent global media influences. The final section of the chapter considers the importance of everyday life narratives to youth music practitioners' immediate but also embedded identities and presentations of themselves and significant (familial) others.Less
This chapter discusses how music media are used and become influential in various everyday contexts. Contrary to the majority of studies into youth subcultures, it details the extent to which domestic, family experiences are reported by respondents to have influenced their music consumer choices. Having outlined these media uses and influences, the implications of a paradoxical trend for growing public uses of music media that wield their strongest influence in the privacy of young people's domestic lives are assessed. The growing public presence of non-terrestrial music television channels and the Internet across young people's everyday educational, work and leisure contexts seems to be stimulated by a desire to consume mediated technologies that might be excluded from domestic settings at the will of parents. The discussion then turns to the extent to which media consumer literacy is able to be productive and even innovative in the formation of music tastes and practices, regardless of ostensibly omnipotent global media influences. The final section of the chapter considers the importance of everyday life narratives to youth music practitioners' immediate but also embedded identities and presentations of themselves and significant (familial) others.
Ellen Seiter
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198711421
- eISBN:
- 9780191694905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198711421.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
The author of this book, as a qualitative audience researcher, observes that a typical situation in a nursery school might usually exhibit how popular television shows plays a major part in ...
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The author of this book, as a qualitative audience researcher, observes that a typical situation in a nursery school might usually exhibit how popular television shows plays a major part in conflicts, various aspects of interpersonal communications, and in the exchange of assorted symbols of cultural capital. While qualitative research cannot directly approve or reject a teacher’s common notion that television promotes violent behaviour among children, qualitative research may be able to provide an explanation that would consider several different contextual factors in such situations of violence while also identifying television’s other uses as a topic and form of communications in varied social settings. While ethnographic audience research reveals that media has now become an essential part of everyday life, we can say that interpersonal relationships and media consumption may be interrelated.Less
The author of this book, as a qualitative audience researcher, observes that a typical situation in a nursery school might usually exhibit how popular television shows plays a major part in conflicts, various aspects of interpersonal communications, and in the exchange of assorted symbols of cultural capital. While qualitative research cannot directly approve or reject a teacher’s common notion that television promotes violent behaviour among children, qualitative research may be able to provide an explanation that would consider several different contextual factors in such situations of violence while also identifying television’s other uses as a topic and form of communications in varied social settings. While ethnographic audience research reveals that media has now become an essential part of everyday life, we can say that interpersonal relationships and media consumption may be interrelated.
Bernhard Fulda
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199547784
- eISBN:
- 9780191720079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547784.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This introductory chapter underlines the importance and originality of the book as a contribution to our understanding of the fate of Weimar democracy. It reflects on the connection between media ...
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This introductory chapter underlines the importance and originality of the book as a contribution to our understanding of the fate of Weimar democracy. It reflects on the connection between media consumption and electoral behaviour, and challenges previously held assumptions about the role of the press in the political process. It provides a discussion of the difficulties of using newspapers as a historical source, and of the methodological problem of assessing something as complex as media effects. It summarizes key historical debates on the rise of Nazism, and places them in the context of media theory.Less
This introductory chapter underlines the importance and originality of the book as a contribution to our understanding of the fate of Weimar democracy. It reflects on the connection between media consumption and electoral behaviour, and challenges previously held assumptions about the role of the press in the political process. It provides a discussion of the difficulties of using newspapers as a historical source, and of the methodological problem of assessing something as complex as media effects. It summarizes key historical debates on the rise of Nazism, and places them in the context of media theory.
Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814737309
- eISBN:
- 9780814744680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814737309.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter discusses the production of public queer cultures as sites of media consumption. The recent development of a global media hub in Singapore has enabled the emergence of a queer public ...
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This chapter discusses the production of public queer cultures as sites of media consumption. The recent development of a global media hub in Singapore has enabled the emergence of a queer public culture despite the illegality of homosexuality. State-funded gay films, subsidized theater plays, Internet portals, and nightclubs are part of the new spaces and practices that have been direct beneficiaries of this policy initiative. In a city-state such as Singapore, cultural citizenship is contested through the way sexuality functions as a technology for the creative economy. While the government has mobilized sexuality as a policy tool to promote cultural liberalization, gays and lesbians have also seized on these practices to claim their right to produce and participate in public culture. The chapter thus evaluates how lesbians “do” citizenship and fashion modes of expression through their media consumption that allow them to fit in, use, and twist the governmental framing of media environments.Less
This chapter discusses the production of public queer cultures as sites of media consumption. The recent development of a global media hub in Singapore has enabled the emergence of a queer public culture despite the illegality of homosexuality. State-funded gay films, subsidized theater plays, Internet portals, and nightclubs are part of the new spaces and practices that have been direct beneficiaries of this policy initiative. In a city-state such as Singapore, cultural citizenship is contested through the way sexuality functions as a technology for the creative economy. While the government has mobilized sexuality as a policy tool to promote cultural liberalization, gays and lesbians have also seized on these practices to claim their right to produce and participate in public culture. The chapter thus evaluates how lesbians “do” citizenship and fashion modes of expression through their media consumption that allow them to fit in, use, and twist the governmental framing of media environments.
Lynn Mie Itagaki
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816699209
- eISBN:
- 9781452954257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816699209.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter discusses the specific role the media plays in constructing race and determining the parameters of “civil” racial discourse. Contesting the racist practices of racial civility, Yamashita ...
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This chapter discusses the specific role the media plays in constructing race and determining the parameters of “civil” racial discourse. Contesting the racist practices of racial civility, Yamashita depicts the alternative practices of media consumption in which the less powerful—the homeless, people of color, immigrants--resist the demands of the more powerful.Less
This chapter discusses the specific role the media plays in constructing race and determining the parameters of “civil” racial discourse. Contesting the racist practices of racial civility, Yamashita depicts the alternative practices of media consumption in which the less powerful—the homeless, people of color, immigrants--resist the demands of the more powerful.
Jack Linchuan Qiu
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040627
- eISBN:
- 9780252099069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040627.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter deals with the “manufactured iSlave,” beginning with the story of a Chinese teenager who sold his kidney to buy an iPhone and an iPad. It compares fanatic consumption of digital media ...
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This chapter deals with the “manufactured iSlave,” beginning with the story of a Chinese teenager who sold his kidney to buy an iPhone and an iPad. It compares fanatic consumption of digital media with voluntary servitude, organ trafficking, and the consumption of slave-produced sugar that led to what anthropologist Sidney Mintz terms as “desocialized eating.” This is then followed by a broader discussion on digital labor in its various immaterial and individualized forms of exploitation that amount to enslavement, especially for those who have developed addiction to Appconn gadgets and services. iSlaves are also manufactured along the temporal dimension as they lose control over their time while chasing the latest trend in digital media. Overall, the chapter assesses the outlook of manufacturing and manufactured iSlaves as being rather bleak.Less
This chapter deals with the “manufactured iSlave,” beginning with the story of a Chinese teenager who sold his kidney to buy an iPhone and an iPad. It compares fanatic consumption of digital media with voluntary servitude, organ trafficking, and the consumption of slave-produced sugar that led to what anthropologist Sidney Mintz terms as “desocialized eating.” This is then followed by a broader discussion on digital labor in its various immaterial and individualized forms of exploitation that amount to enslavement, especially for those who have developed addiction to Appconn gadgets and services. iSlaves are also manufactured along the temporal dimension as they lose control over their time while chasing the latest trend in digital media. Overall, the chapter assesses the outlook of manufacturing and manufactured iSlaves as being rather bleak.
Walter Armbrust (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520219250
- eISBN:
- 9780520923096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520219250.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
This chapter presents an alternative view of transnational media consumption, studying two Egyptian performance communities that relate differently to both global and national trends. The first is ...
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This chapter presents an alternative view of transnational media consumption, studying two Egyptian performance communities that relate differently to both global and national trends. The first is the Cairene community of Muhammad 'Ali street, which largely exists outside the influence of global culture markets and has experienced both the state's favor and disfavor. The second community is Upper Egyptian, which is marginal within Egypt, and is precisely the kind of phenomenon that is favored in metropolitan “world beat” music which aims to present itself as an alternative to leading metropolitan trends.Less
This chapter presents an alternative view of transnational media consumption, studying two Egyptian performance communities that relate differently to both global and national trends. The first is the Cairene community of Muhammad 'Ali street, which largely exists outside the influence of global culture markets and has experienced both the state's favor and disfavor. The second community is Upper Egyptian, which is marginal within Egypt, and is precisely the kind of phenomenon that is favored in metropolitan “world beat” music which aims to present itself as an alternative to leading metropolitan trends.
