FV058 Television and its audiences in everyday life

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2002
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Volek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
TELEVISION AND ITS AUDIENCES IN EVERYDAY LIFE In this course we shall consider how studies in media and especially televison audiences shown that media and everyday life are intertwined. We shall address theoretical and empirical approaches (for example Fiske, Baudrillard, Adorno, Hall, Morley, Silverstone, Lull, Ang and so on) to the study of television audiences in order to show how people fit television into their biographies. The course will provide introduction to audience research with stress on qualitative, ethnografic research too. We will try to examine a range of viewing habits from different parts of the world. To consider factors such as age, gender and material status in relation to audiences, and asses how theese factors influence our consumption of television. Course outline: Introduction to television and sociological theory of everyday life/ television and construction of ontological security/ the field of media audience research/ ethnographic media audience research/ television as a socio-technical system and its users/ the role of television in the family/ television viewing as a form of consumption. The course comes in the form twelve two hour sessions that involve a combination of lectures and seminars. Students must be prepared to talk about and critically discuss the material you have read. Assesment: written essay 2500 - 3000 words, final test. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001.
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