Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Whitehouse-Hart, Jo

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“…In the teeth of this new paradigm, I want to note the emergence of new studies of an older kind of audience: the devotional audience. A scatter of new work is waiting to be brought together here, from (the early) Victor Nell (on reading [1998]), to Alf Gabrielsson (all kinds of music [2011]), Jo Whitehouse-Hart (television [2014]), Tomas Axelson (cinema [2008]), Claudio Benzecry (opera [2011]), and Sarah Atkinson and Helen Kennedy (“live cinema” [2017]). These studies are revealing people finding in various media the resources for life-altering experiences.…”

Section: The Infrastructures Of Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Shall We Measure Our Progress? On Paradigms, Metaphors, and Meetings in Audience Research

Barker

2018

Television & New Media

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This article (which began life as a presentation to the closing CEDAR Conference in Lisbon, 2017) interrogates the state of the “field” of audience research, by looking back to Thomas Kuhn’s work on paradigms in science, and the institutional conditions necessary for their operation. It then looks forward to recent work in the sociology of expectations, to consider the role of future predictions. The article concludes that audience research is perhaps not a field or a discipline, although the aspiration to be so is not altogether a bad thing. The article suggests that the best destiny for the field is to be a rogue element within the broader media, communication, and cultural studies domain, demanding—and providing—empirical evidence in the face of normatively charged claims.

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Section: The Infrastructures Of Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Shall We Measure Our Progress? On Paradigms, Metaphors, and Meetings in Audience Research

Barker

2018

Television & New Media

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“…A psychosocial approach, in both empirical and interpretive terms, best serves the purpose of investigating the connection between the realms of lived and imagined experience. This increasingly influential approach, developed largely by British scholars since the 1990s (Whitehouse-Hart, 2014; The Association of Psychosocial Studies, n.d.), combines multiple disciplines in social sciences, including most typically psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, queer studies, poststructuralist theory, and cultural studies (Frosh & Baraitser, 2008;Frost & McClean, 2014;Woodward, 2015). The Association of Psychosocial Studies, as of February 2021, summarises the essence of psychosocial studies as follows:…”

Section: Research Questions and Psychosocial Studiesmentioning

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“…1) Woodward (2015) explains that "psychosocial studies bring together the micro and the macro, the personal and the social, inner worlds and outer worlds, which combine in different ways" (p. 5). The approach is marked by attempts to explore both the manifest content of discourse and the latent processes behind the formation of such narratives (Whitehouse-Hart, 2014). The aim behind a psychosocial interest in these latent processes is to consider informants' anxieties, defences, and moods shown in interview contexts (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000;Whitehouse-Hart, 2014).…”

Section: Research Questions and Psychosocial Studiesmentioning

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“…The approach is marked by attempts to explore both the manifest content of discourse and the latent processes behind the formation of such narratives (Whitehouse-Hart, 2014). The aim behind a psychosocial interest in these latent processes is to consider informants' anxieties, defences, and moods shown in interview contexts (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000;Whitehouse-Hart, 2014). Applying a psychosocial approach to audience research is a means to read audience reception "symptomatically," that is, to scrutinise audiences' narratives beyond their face value and attend to the profound psychological meanings behind such narratives (Ang, 1985, p. 11).…”

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“…As Mishler (1986) and Hollway and Jefferson (2000) contend, decontextualising narratives poses problems because doing so risks generalisation, homogenisation, and essentialism. In an era where audiences have become increasingly fragmented and viewing experience increasingly personalised due to the broader range of media on offer and proliferation of communication means, case-study research of the viewing experience such as that conducted by Johanssen (2018a;2018b) and Whitehouse-Hart (2014) has gained currency. A psychosocial study with an orientation towards case study analysis offers an innovative way to look at individual viewing experience as both a social and private phenomenon.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

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This doctoral thesis explores Vietnamese audience reception of soft masculinities, defined by the aestheticisation and romantic idealisation of male characters, in South Korean television dramas (K-dramas). Based on interview data collected in 2019, the thesis focuses on patterns of gendered desire, identification, and negotiation in viewers in their 20s and 30s. It highlights the popularity of K-dramas in Vietnam, which have established an enduring presence there since the late 1990s, overlapping with ongoing changes in gender relations following the introduction of the 1986 Đổi Mới (reform) policy, marked by Vietnam’s transition to a market economy and gradual integration into global trade. The thesis demonstrates how the spread of this “Korean Wave” is correlated with a changing local mediascape, the rise of a consumer culture, and a growing interest in exploring the self. In this thesis, I adopt the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method, which draws on the solicitation of free talk and storytelling and psychosocial attention to case studies in order to connect interview participants’ biographical details with their viewing experiences. The study is influenced by Judith Butler’s theoretical work on gender and performativity, as well as related material by scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. I highlight how a nuanced understanding of the viewing experience treats it as a complex process linked to an individual’s biographical details and explore how this process intertwines with larger sociocultural contexts, including local norms, Confucian values, feminism, Western gender images, notions of modernity, and globalised aesthetic ideals. The study reveals that although gendered desires and identifications are shaped by norms, they can also subvert them, and thus provides empirical evidence for Butler’s theories from a Vietnamese context. It also shows that desires and identifications that result from engagement with fantasy on screen may follow viewers’ personalised logics and open up multiple avenues for interpretations. Prominent themes of viewing experiences in relation to soft masculinities analysed in this thesis include escapism, parasocial interactions with characters, romantic imaginations, melancholic identification with romantic relationships on screen, desires for upward mobility, queer pleasures, ambivalence, and disidentification. The thesis thus contributes to contemporary Vietnamese studies, gender studies, psychosocial studies, media audience studies, and research on the Korean Wave.

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Resistance to a gender threat: a case-study analysis of Vietnamese viewers’ unfavourable reception of soft masculinities in romantic Korean television dramas

Gammon

2023

NORMA

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Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Cited by 7 publications

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How Shall We Measure Our Progress? On Paradigms, Metaphors, and Meetings in Audience Research

How Shall We Measure Our Progress? On Paradigms, Metaphors, and Meetings in Audience Research

Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

Resistance to a gender threat: a case-study analysis of Vietnamese viewers’ unfavourable reception of soft masculinities in romantic Korean television dramas

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