Researching Media In Everyday Lives

STUDIES

`1. Hall and Encoding/Decoding Morley and The Nationwide audience.

2. Hobson and Housewives Gray and Home Technology.

3. Radway and Reading Romance.

4. Morley and Family Television Hermes and Magazine use.

5. Meyrowitz and Place Scannell and Place.

6. Urry and Mobility Wood and Television.

7. Krajina and the Mediated City Moores and Metykova and Place/home.

Provide an account of the similarities / or differences between these studies. ( Address the issues or theory and or /method , and where appropriate , consider briefly the findings of any empirical research.

.Similarities and differences

Types of method used to collect data,

Interviews, focus groups, letters.

.Place of the research encounter

Internet, home, non domestic setting.

.Types of sample

Gender, class, ethnicity , age.

.Aim of speech

Previous theory, technology, interpretation of texts.

Finding – What’s new?

Audience use of words

Use of technology

Genre/gender distinctions

Hierarchy in close research develop

Give the participant a voice.

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