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Talking with Television

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Description for Talking with Television Paperback. Talking back to TV--women viewers' participation with TV talk shows Series: Feminist Studies and Media Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFDT; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
Over the past decade, television talk shows have proliferated and diversified in style. One of the most demonized of television genres, talk shows have fueled debates about television's faltering role as a medium for social interaction. Overlooked in all this discussion is the fact that many viewers don't just absorb the shows but react to them and even talk back to their televisions.

Focusing on the political and everyday nature of talk, Talking with Television explores the relationship between talk on TV, talk about TV, and, most dynamically, talk with TV. By observing and analyzing the daily viewing habits ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Feminist Studies and Media Culture
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076022
SKU
V9780252076022
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About Helen Wood
Helen Wood is principal lecturer in media studies at De Montfort University in Leicester, England.

Reviews for Talking with Television
"A rare product: a theoretically informed empirical study, using data in sophisticated ways to produce far-reaching insights into the practice of television viewing and the construction of gendered subjectivity. A significant contribution to sociology, media and cultural studies, and gender studies."
Ann Gray, author of Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures

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