Locating Television

Teenage Pregnancy and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Mexican Television Series La Rosa de Guadalupe

“…Rating figures reveal that nine of the ten currently most watched programmes in Mexico are produced and broadcast by Televisa. Broadcast television has long been a primary source of media consumption in Mexico (Altamirano, 2012: 993); figures from 2013 indicated that TV sets in the average household are switched on for over nine hours per day (Pertierra and Turner, 2013: 14). It is only since 2018 that Netflix has overtaken Televisa in terms of series productions (López, 2021).…”

“…As a result of Televisa's extended monopoly of Mexico's especially dynamic media market (Smith, 2019) and its daily presence within Mexican homes, the conglomerate has been observed to regiment norms about romantic and family relationships (Sandoval, 2014), wielding political influence (Mahan, 1985; Mejía Barquera and Trejo Delarbre, 1985; Villamil, 2012), moulding consumer tastes and boosting consumerism as an expression of a modern quality of life (Murphy, 1995: 256). High‐rating television programming such as La Rosa de Guadalupe produces a ‘very clear, and very selective, vision of the values and aesthetics of the Mexican nation’ (Pertierra and Turner, 2013: 55). Such cultural sway is also recognised as a badge of honour within the Televisa brand: what has sometimes been dismissed as frivolousness in its entertainment outputs has been defended by those at Televisa's helm as ‘buen opio’ (healthy opium) and a form of escapism for the ‘clase media “jodida”’ (the beaten‐down middle class) (Paxman and Fernández, 2013: 621).…”

The Great Australian TV Delay: Disruption, Online Piracy and Netflix

“…However, there is no comprehensive model that adequately accounts for the user experience of disruptive technologies. There are many innovations in media and communication-related fields, including television and audience studies, that bring anthropological approaches to understanding user experiences (Bruns 2006;Evans 2020;Hall 1980;Hill et al 2017;Jenkins 2006;McLuhan 1964;Pertierra and Turner 2013;Turnbull 2006Turnbull , 2014Turner 2019a). However, Lotz et al (2018) and Turner (2019a) have argued that we need more robust methodologies for analyzing media consumption to better understand individuals' participation and contribution to technological change.…”