Approaching the cultures of use: Netflix, disruption and the audience

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
Television Audience

This article draws on an empirical research project on cultural consumption in order to respond to particular concerns this project raised about our understanding of the current regimes of consumption for television, or what this article describes as the ‘cultures of use’. While there are rich literatures around many aspects of television consumption, this article argues that there is a gap in our direct knowledge of how individuals and households consume television, across platforms and devices, in domestic spaces. In order to fill that gap and to better understand how television consumption is embedded within people’s everyday lives, television studies may need not only to ask new kinds of questions through its research but also to adapt and modify some of the modes of audience research that marked the beginnings of television audience studies.

Television Studies, We Need to Talk about “Binge-Viewing”

2019 ◽  
pp. 152747641987704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Television Audience

This article argues that a crucial task for a renewed investment in television audience research now is to investigate the range of practices currently covered by the label of binge-viewing. Notwithstanding the widespread application of the concept of binge-viewing within both industry commentary and academic research, this article will suggest that the concept has reached the point where it has outlived its usefulness for television studies. Rather than staying with what has become an extremely imprecise term, the argument continues, television studies should turn its attention toward generating more located and nuanced observational accounts of the evolving “cultures of use” within consumer households in order to develop a more accurate and usable set of terms to describe what is actually happening in domestic spaces as people watch television.

Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 801-815
Author(s):  
Annette Hill
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Stories ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Ethical Commitment ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
The Look ◽  
Film Making ◽  
The Way

Oppenheimer describes The Act of Killing as a ‘documentary about the imagination. We are documenting the ways we imagine ourselves, the ways we know ourselves’. This research analyses the documentary films The Act of Killing (Director Oppenheimer, co-directors Christine Cynn and anonymous 2012) and The Look of Silence (director Oppenheimer 2014), and the documentary imaginary. The research combines normally separate sites of analysis in production and audience studies in order to understand the power of documentary and the spectrum of social stories we inhabit. The article asks: how do the films document and imagine fear and impunity in memories of the genocide, and how do audiences engage with this documentary imaginary? Particular focus is paid towards the endings of the two documentary films and how audiences in this study reflect on the absence of justice for the victims of the genocide. Through the empirical research, we take a journey with the director and his film making process, understanding the lengthy and complex filming for the two documentaries in Indonesia. The films signal Oppenheimer’s political and ethical commitment towards victim recognition, the possibility and impossibility of forgiveness, and the challenge of reconciliation between victims and perpetrators. The filmmaker’s journey is intertwined with the enactments of the genocide by the perpetrators in their own surreal ways of imagining themselves, and the experience of victims seeking recognition. Audiences become intertwined in these journeys, finding along the way a critically productive space for documentary and the imaginary.

Affect, emotion, and media audiences: the case of resilient reception

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1186-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Communications Technologies

In this article, I place qualitative audience research in conversation with theories of affect. Informed by participant data from two qualitative audience studies I have conducted with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) audiences in the United States, I illustrate how cultural representations can make significant demands on one’s emotional and affective life, requiring practices of rest, rebuilding, and reclamation. I call this process resilient reception, or the strategies audiences employ to manage the affectively turbulent power of media and communications technologies. I examine two examples of resilient reception that the participants in my studies practiced: orientation devices (how audiences oriented toward and away from media) and practices of immersion (how audiences immersed themselves in empowering interpersonal communities and media fare). Ultimately, I argue that theories of affect can complement ideological understandings of media audiences by offering a more embodied and dynamic optic.

Tending toward friendship: LGBTQ sexualities in US schools

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Gilbert ◽  
Jessica Fields ◽  
Laura Mamo ◽  
Nancy Lesko
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Peer Social Support ◽  
Bullying Programs

In 2014, Beyond Bullying, a research project examining LGBTQ sexualities and lives at school, installed private storytelling booths in three US high schools. Students, teachers, and staff were invited to use the booths to share stories about LGBTQ sexualities—their stories often invoked the pleasures and disappointments of being and having a friend. This article analyzes narratives of friendship as told in the Beyond Bullying storytelling booths. Drawing on Foucault’s (1996) interview, ‘Friendship as a way of life,’ we explore participants’ stories of friendship as heralding ‘new relational modes’ that chart a liminal space between family and sexuality. These relational modes of friendship disrupt the familiar trope of the ‘ally’ in anti-bullying programs and complicate what empirical research on LGBTQ youth calls, ‘peer social support.’ Theorizing friendship allows LGBTQ sexuality in schools to reside in an ethics of discomfort, which accommodates complex social relations and varied forms of desire, intimacy, and yearning.

The Policy of Technological the Policy of Technological Innovation and Economic Trajectory of Portugal

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Vonia Engel ◽  
Teresa Noronha ◽  
Cidonea Machado Deponti
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Analytical Results ◽  
Dependence Theory ◽  
Path Dependence Theory

This chapter is the result of an interuniversity exchange doctoral research project carried out in the Algarve region, Portugal, in 2017. Its objective was to discuss the economic trajectory of Portugal and its implications for those political strategies encouraging technological innovation. The empirical research used interviews and the analytical results were based on the path dependence theory. The outcomes of this study point to the dependence of the Algarve region from external investments.

Theoretical and Empirical Comparative Analysis on Quantitative and Qualitative Marketing Researches

2015 ◽  
pp. 1712-1730
Author(s):  
Piotr Tarka ◽  
Mirosława Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Methodological Aspects

This chapter focuses on the similarities and differences between quantitative and qualitative marketing research projects and the possibilities of combining them in triangulation. The comparative analysis of both types of the research was conducted on the basis of literature review and the empirical research results, which were obtained from the evaluation of usability of Polish bank website. In the following sections, the authors discuss issues such as: 1) specificity of quantitative vs. qualitative marketing research, with regards to the implemented research projects; 2) methodological aspects of quantitative and qualitative research. They compare the selected research and sampling methods. Also, the problems which may occur with reference to quantitative and qualitative marketing research triangulation on different stages of the research project are discussed. Moreover, strengths and weaknesses of triangulation are analyzed. At the end, the example of quantitative and qualitative triangulation in the research project investigating the usability of websites is presented.

Improvement and renewal of healthcare processes: results of an empirical research project

Health Policy ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. van der Bij ◽  
L. Dijkstra ◽  
G. de Vries ◽  
J. Walburg
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Healthcare Processes
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