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Book SynopsisTalking back to TV--women viewers' participation with TV talk shows
Trade Review"A rare product: a theoretically informed empirical study, using data in sophisticated ways to produce far-reaching insights into the practice of television viewing and the construction of gendered subjectivity. A significant contribution to sociology, media and cultural studies, and gender studies."--Ann Gray, author of
Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Transcription Conventions xi
Introduction 1
1. Talk Is Not So Cheap 13
2. Making Talk
Talk in Media Studies 31
3. Daytime Talking 56
4. Method: Texts-in-Action 100
5. Talking about Daytime Talk 118
6. Talking Back: The Mediated Conversational Floor 147
7. Texts, Subjects, and Modern Self-Reflexivity 180
Conclusion: Media, Mechanics, and the Politics of Self-Reflexivity 199
Appendix: Biographies of the Women 211
Notes 215
Bibliography 223
Index 235
