عنوان

Audience understandings of media messages about child sexual abuse :

شماره

TLets298709

عنوان اصلي

Audience understandings of media messages about child sexual abuse :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Kitzinger, Jenny

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

an exploration of audience reception and media influence

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Glasgow

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1999

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Glasgow

امتياز متن

1999

متن يادداشت

Audience Understandings of Media Messages about Child Sexual Abuse: an exploration of audience reception and media influence. This thesis examines media power and audience reception processes through a detailed study of media reporting and public understandings of child sexual abuse. It is based on 79 focus group discussions in which people were invited to write their own scripts (using pictures taken from the TV coverage) or comment on some anti-abuse advertisements (taken from the Zero Tolerance campaign). Public understandings are systematically compared to the content of media reporting and campaign materials. In particular 1 explore people's memories of two cases, 'Cleveland' and 'Orkney', and their views around specific themes (images of abusers, notions about stranger-danger, and ideas around sites of safety and danger). The thesis explores the diversity of audience reactions and the different ways in which people may identify with the characters represented in the media or in advertisements. However, I also draw attention to the themes which recurred across all the focus groups and argue that there is strong evidence of media effects. The thesis highlights factors in media coverage which are particularly influential. It demonstrates how 'story branding' and the social and geographical placing of an event may influence audience responses and examines how media representations may 'organise the imagination' through structuring patterns of empathy. I also highlight the impact of 'media templates'; the powerful and routine association of one case with another whereby condensed versions of the past are used to interpret and frame the present. In addition to looking at the media, attention is drawn to readers' and viewers' everyday interactions and experiences. I demonstrate how audience responses are influenced by embedded knowledge, structural factors and the social currency of different types of information. The final part of the thesis discusses the way in which the experience of abuse is itself mediated by the media environment, and draws on interviews conducted from the early 1980s to examine how the 'cultural vacuum' for abuse survivors has been transformed. The thesis concludes by challenging some taken-for-granted media studies terminology and points to the practical, theoretical and methodological implications of my work. I argue for a media studies agenda which reconnects questions about audience reception with questions about media production and content as well as the structuring of wider relations within society. It is through re-establishing such connections that media studies researchers can contribute to contemporary debates about power, control and social change.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sociology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kitzinger, Jenny

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Glasgow

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y