Helen Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chief Branch of Occupational Outlook and Specialized Personnel Bureau of Labor Statistics U. S. Department of Labor Washington, D. C. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7596-0108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Counter-energy or ‘cracking the flags’: Audience research in times of ideological crisis
This article makes a pitch for bringing audience studies of the everyday to contemporary research on the rise of disinformation and the far-right. Taking its moment from ‘operation raise the colours’ which saw the proliferation of flags across the United Kingdom in the summer of 2025, it argues for a deeper understanding of mundane techno-social relations within the contemporary conjuncture. This means we need both an understanding of the ‘form’ …
‘Grafting’ on Love Island: Ethics, entertainment and reality TV work
Three (Working-class) Girls: Social Realism, the ‘At-risk’ Girl and Alternative Classed Subjectivities
This article focuses on the BBC1 three-part drama Three Girls, broadcast in July 2017, which dramatised the Rochdale child sex-grooming gang scandal of 2011 and won five BAFTAs in 2018. While many of the dominant press narratives focused on the ethnicity of the perpetrators, few accounts of the scandal spoke to the need for a sustained public discussion of the class location of the victims. This article considers how the process of recognising th…
Introduction: Television in the Afternoon
In this introductory essay, the editors of this special issue of Critical Studies in Television explore the existing ways in which scholars have considered afternoon television, present data which demonstrates the historical distribution of and shifts in the genres of afternoon, and make a case for the contribution to the field offered by this collection of new essays. In the process, we call for an interrogation of commonly held assumptions abou…
Stuart Hanson, Andrew Tolson and Helen Wood Interview – 6 June 2011
[Hudson Vincent] I was hoping we could start with a conversation about the Centre itself. What brought you there in the first place? [Andrew Tolson] I was an undergraduate student of English at Bir
Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up, te…
Introduction: Real Class
‘Is it really about class?’ This was the question often asked when we presented our research at various seminars and conferences throughout the duration of our reality television project, ‘Making Class and Self through Televised Ethical Scenarios’.Funded by the ESRC. Our findings are accessible at
Turning it on is a class act: Immediated object relations with television
Reality Television and Class
This is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the editors spell out how reality television - by making visi…
From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity
Feeling Sentimental about Television and Audiences
Television is in transition, and we wish to argue for the present and future understanding of the medium in ways that focus on continuity as well as change. In particular, we wish to salvage from the weight of technocentric models of user engagements early theoretical work about the intimate relationship television has (had) with its audiences. The old screen medium of TV, we argue, whether multiple and diffuse in new arrangements of time and spa…
Sorglig television: Affekter, Omdömen Och Känsloarbete
Many of the existing debates about Reality TV overlook some of the obvious ways in which questions of intimacy are implicated in gender relations. In this article we want to open up a debate about how Reality TV’s creation of mediated intimacy induces a type of emotional labour through the performance of femininity. The realm of intimacy is one that has traditionally been associated with the feminine private sphere, but various commentators have …
CCCS Selected Working Papers
CCCS Selected Working Papers
This chapter considers the 'strange fate of progressive education' in the postwar period and explores the way in which its ideas and themes have been taken up and distorted by the new vocationalism of the 1970s and 1980s. The concerns of progressive education had to some extent been reflected in liberal and general studies in the 1960s and were echoed by the 'humanism' of the Crowther Report. The aim of liberal and general studies was to move stu…
The mediated conversational floor: An interactive approach to audience reception analysis
Audience studies, as they have been traditionally associated with cultural studies, have recognized relations of power at each end of the communication process, privileging the framework of ‘text-reader’ relations. This article offers an alternative method of reception analysis which seeks to overcome text/reader/context distinctions and place the communicative ‘act’ itself at the centre. It argues that broadcasting needs to be understood within …
Mediated Interaction
The phrase mediated interaction is now more popularly associated with the speed and ease of Internet connections which facilitate new ways of creating electronic interpersonal relationships and community‐building through facilities like web forums, SMS messaging, and ICQ. But that is to ignore the involvement of much of the “mass media” – and that phrase itself is problematic – interceding in forms of human life and relationships. Psychiatrists H…
Texting the Subject: Women, Television, and Modern Self-Reflexivity
Feminist audience research has often argued that the pleasures women find in watching certain popular television genres derive from their indulgence in "referential viewing": relating their own subjective experience to television texts. But it has never been spelled out what this actually entails. This article, based upon research with women viewers of talk shows and morning magazine programs, suggests a specific methodology, "text in action," to…
The utility of minimal CT scanning in the study of two Egyptian mummy heads
The remains of two Egyptian mummies from the New Kingdom site of Qurnah were investigated using computer tomography. Two scout views and two CT slices were studied for each specimen. General descriptions of the specimens were drawn from these images. Standard anthropometric measurements were taken from the CT scans and compared with a sample data set describing skeletal material from the same site. One specimen was found to be typical of males fr…
The utility of minimal CT scanning in the study of two Egyptian mummy heads
The remains of two Egyptian mummies from the New Kingdom site of Qurnah were investigated using computer tomography. Two scout views and two CT slices were studied for each specimen. General descriptions of the specimens were drawn from these images. Standard anthropometric measurements were taken from the CT scans and compared with a sample data set describing skeletal material from the same site. One specimen was found to be typical of males fr…
Summary, Résumé, Zusammenfassung
Cirsium vutgare (Savi) Ten. is i\ serious biennial alien weed only in pasture land in Australia. To Identity reasons for sueh preferential infestation and lo isolate sensitive stages in the life history of C. vutgarc, comparative demographic analyses were conducted in grazed, ungrazed and herbicide-treated Mediterranean-like pastures in south-eastern Australia. Grazing by sheep (i) reduced compelition from neighbouring plants, (ii) increased C. v…
Book Note and Review: Labor Economics: High-Talent Manpower for Science and Industry
High-Talent Manpower for Science and Industry
Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up, te…
Reality Television and Class
This is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the editors spell out how reality television - by making visi…
Texting the Subject: Women, Television, and Modern Self-Reflexivity
Feminist audience research has often argued that the pleasures women find in watching certain popular television genres derive from their indulgence in "referential viewing": relating their own subjective experience to television texts. But it has never been spelled out what this actually entails. This article, based upon research with women viewers of talk shows and morning magazine programs, suggests a specific methodology, "text in action," to…
Introduction: Television in the Afternoon
In this introductory essay, the editors of this special issue of Critical Studies in Television explore the existing ways in which scholars have considered afternoon television, present data which demonstrates the historical distribution of and shifts in the genres of afternoon, and make a case for the contribution to the field offered by this collection of new essays. In the process, we call for an interrogation of commonly held assumptions abou…
Turning it on is a class act: Immediated object relations with television
Feeling Sentimental about Television and Audiences
Television is in transition, and we wish to argue for the present and future understanding of the medium in ways that focus on continuity as well as change. In particular, we wish to salvage from the weight of technocentric models of user engagements early theoretical work about the intimate relationship television has (had) with its audiences. The old screen medium of TV, we argue, whether multiple and diffuse in new arrangements of time and spa…
The mediated conversational floor: An interactive approach to audience reception analysis
Audience studies, as they have been traditionally associated with cultural studies, have recognized relations of power at each end of the communication process, privileging the framework of ‘text-reader’ relations. This article offers an alternative method of reception analysis which seeks to overcome text/reader/context distinctions and place the communicative ‘act’ itself at the centre. It argues that broadcasting needs to be understood within …
Book Note and Review: Labor Economics: High-Talent Manpower for Science and Industry
High-Talent Manpower for Science and Industry
Summary, Résumé, Zusammenfassung
Cirsium vutgare (Savi) Ten. is i\ serious biennial alien weed only in pasture land in Australia. To Identity reasons for sueh preferential infestation and lo isolate sensitive stages in the life history of C. vutgarc, comparative demographic analyses were conducted in grazed, ungrazed and herbicide-treated Mediterranean-like pastures in south-eastern Australia. Grazing by sheep (i) reduced compelition from neighbouring plants, (ii) increased C. v…
The utility of minimal CT scanning in the study of two Egyptian mummy heads
The remains of two Egyptian mummies from the New Kingdom site of Qurnah were investigated using computer tomography. Two scout views and two CT slices were studied for each specimen. General descriptions of the specimens were drawn from these images. Standard anthropometric measurements were taken from the CT scans and compared with a sample data set describing skeletal material from the same site. One specimen was found to be typical of males fr…
The utility of minimal CT scanning in the study of two Egyptian mummy heads
The remains of two Egyptian mummies from the New Kingdom site of Qurnah were investigated using computer tomography. Two scout views and two CT slices were studied for each specimen. General descriptions of the specimens were drawn from these images. Standard anthropometric measurements were taken from the CT scans and compared with a sample data set describing skeletal material from the same site. One specimen was found to be typical of males fr…
Texting the Subject: Women, Television, and Modern Self-Reflexivity
Feminist audience research has often argued that the pleasures women find in watching certain popular television genres derive from their indulgence in "referential viewing": relating their own subjective experience to television texts. But it has never been spelled out what this actually entails. This article, based upon research with women viewers of talk shows and morning magazine programs, suggests a specific methodology, "text in action," to…
CCCS Selected Working Papers
CCCS Selected Working Papers
This chapter considers the 'strange fate of progressive education' in the postwar period and explores the way in which its ideas and themes have been taken up and distorted by the new vocationalism of the 1970s and 1980s. The concerns of progressive education had to some extent been reflected in liberal and general studies in the 1960s and were echoed by the 'humanism' of the Crowther Report. The aim of liberal and general studies was to move stu…
The mediated conversational floor: An interactive approach to audience reception analysis
Audience studies, as they have been traditionally associated with cultural studies, have recognized relations of power at each end of the communication process, privileging the framework of ‘text-reader’ relations. This article offers an alternative method of reception analysis which seeks to overcome text/reader/context distinctions and place the communicative ‘act’ itself at the centre. It argues that broadcasting needs to be understood within …
Mediated Interaction
The phrase mediated interaction is now more popularly associated with the speed and ease of Internet connections which facilitate new ways of creating electronic interpersonal relationships and community‐building through facilities like web forums, SMS messaging, and ICQ. But that is to ignore the involvement of much of the “mass media” – and that phrase itself is problematic – interceding in forms of human life and relationships. Psychiatrists H…
Feeling Sentimental about Television and Audiences
Television is in transition, and we wish to argue for the present and future understanding of the medium in ways that focus on continuity as well as change. In particular, we wish to salvage from the weight of technocentric models of user engagements early theoretical work about the intimate relationship television has (had) with its audiences. The old screen medium of TV, we argue, whether multiple and diffuse in new arrangements of time and spa…
Sorglig television: Affekter, Omdömen Och Känsloarbete
Many of the existing debates about Reality TV overlook some of the obvious ways in which questions of intimacy are implicated in gender relations. In this article we want to open up a debate about how Reality TV’s creation of mediated intimacy induces a type of emotional labour through the performance of femininity. The realm of intimacy is one that has traditionally been associated with the feminine private sphere, but various commentators have …
From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity
Introduction: Real Class
‘Is it really about class?’ This was the question often asked when we presented our research at various seminars and conferences throughout the duration of our reality television project, ‘Making Class and Self through Televised Ethical Scenarios’.Funded by the ESRC. Our findings are accessible at
Turning it on is a class act: Immediated object relations with television
Reality Television and Class
This is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the editors spell out how reality television - by making visi…
Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise. But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up, te…
Stuart Hanson, Andrew Tolson and Helen Wood Interview – 6 June 2011
[Hudson Vincent] I was hoping we could start with a conversation about the Centre itself. What brought you there in the first place? [Andrew Tolson] I was an undergraduate student of English at Bir
Introduction: Television in the Afternoon
In this introductory essay, the editors of this special issue of Critical Studies in Television explore the existing ways in which scholars have considered afternoon television, present data which demonstrates the historical distribution of and shifts in the genres of afternoon, and make a case for the contribution to the field offered by this collection of new essays. In the process, we call for an interrogation of commonly held assumptions abou…
Three (Working-class) Girls: Social Realism, the ‘At-risk’ Girl and Alternative Classed Subjectivities
This article focuses on the BBC1 three-part drama Three Girls, broadcast in July 2017, which dramatised the Rochdale child sex-grooming gang scandal of 2011 and won five BAFTAs in 2018. While many of the dominant press narratives focused on the ethnicity of the perpetrators, few accounts of the scandal spoke to the need for a sustained public discussion of the class location of the victims. This article considers how the process of recognising th…
‘Grafting’ on Love Island: Ethics, entertainment and reality TV work
Counter-energy or ‘cracking the flags’: Audience research in times of ideological crisis
This article makes a pitch for bringing audience studies of the everyday to contemporary research on the rise of disinformation and the far-right. Taking its moment from ‘operation raise the colours’ which saw the proliferation of flags across the United Kingdom in the summer of 2025, it argues for a deeper understanding of mundane techno-social relations within the contemporary conjuncture. This means we need both an understanding of the ‘form’ …
Sociology (12 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Reality television (4 works)