Families in front of the screen : everyday contexts of television use : a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University

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dc.contributor.authorZwaga, Wiebe Eelco Radboud
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-14T23:54:54Z
dc.date.available2018-03-14T23:54:54Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.description.abstractAlthough the experience of watching television has assumed a position of prime importance, not only in the lives of families, but also as a central component of the advertising industry, we know very little about what people actually do when they are infront of the screen. Using innovative technology which allowed the researcher to record eight selected families watching television, this thesis argues that our conceptions of families closely scrutinising the texts of television programmes are misplaced. Following the work of Lull and Morley, who emphasise the importance of the social context over the predominance of the text, the evidence presented in this qualitative study suggests that instead of a 'spectorial' medium in which audiences sit captured by programmes, television acts rather as a kind of 'moving wallpaper' against which the everyday events of family life are played out. This means that our understandings of television watching must therefore be based on the social relations of the family as they use television in their spatio-temporal domestic contexts. Significant shifts are therefore necessary in media research agendas.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/12966
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectTelevision broadcastingen_US
dc.subjectTelevision viewersen_US
dc.subjectTelevision and familyen_US
dc.subjectSocial aspects -- Case studiesen_US
dc.subjectResearchen_US
dc.titleFamilies in front of the screen : everyday contexts of television use : a dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey Universityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorZwaga, Wiebe Eelco Radboud
thesis.degree.disciplineSociologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)en_US
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