Offers an understanding of offensive media content
Closes a research gap by presenting new research with 90 members of the public in the UK and Germany with whom the authors sat and watched a wide ranging set of television programmes before conducting focus groups and interviews with them
Highly original focus due to the nature of television content being very different across the UK and Germany; the range, scope and centralisation of media regulation differs hugely across them, and public concerns about provocative screens show intriguing similarities and dissimilarities
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: The Slippery Terrain of Offensive Television. - Chapter 2: Producing the Imagined Audience of Offensive Screens. - Chapter 3: Just Kidding! Negotiating the Line between Humour and Offence. - Chapter 4: Audiences Speak Back: Re-Working Offensive Texts. - Chapter 5: Audiences Expectations of Regulators and Producers. - Chapter 6: Provocative Screens.
