Deborah Chambers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4486405 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah Chambers |
| PRENOMES | Deborah |
| SOBRENOME | Chambers |
| ASSINATURA | CHAMBERS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5646-3085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Understanding Emerging Adults’ Perspectives on Mental Health in Togo
Mental health worldwide is extremely important to address; unfortunately, many aspects of mental health are not visibly known or treated in the world. Moreover, some developmental groups are more affected than others; in fact, emerging adulthood is a crucial developmental phase that is prone to depression. With most mental health conditions beginning before the age of 24 and depression as the leading cause of disability globally, this study sough…
Attuning smart home scripts to household and energy care
Past techno-feminist studies have shown that smart home technologies (SHTs) have inadvertently increased household demand for energy and reinforced gender disparities. This confirms the need to gauge any changes in smart home visions, given that the domestication of SHTs depends on accurate and reliable technology and messages to householders. To determine whether smart home visions are now supporting more gender-equitable household practices and…
Emerging temporalities in the multiscreen home
This article considers how changing screen practices are changing prevailing domestic temporal routines to generate new household dynamics. Underpinned by a case study of the multiscreen home, a media time approach offers a close analysis of the temporal dimensions of household screen use. The analysis draws on data about patterns of use of screen devices and streaming services from UK’s communications regulator Ofcom, combined with findings from…
Domesticating the “Smarter Than You” Home. Gendered Agency Scripts Embedded in Smart Home Discourses
Smart home networked systems promise a mode of comfort, efficiency and convenience that infers the easing of housekeeping chores. They impact on the moral economy of the home in ways we barely understand. Drawing on feminist technology studies and domestication theory, this article investigates how gendered relations are assigned and legitimated in smart home marketing reports and advertisements to enquire whether men and women are invited to par…
The Rise and Fall of the Analogue Television Set
This article explores the shifting materiality and meanings of television as an exhibited object. To consider the fluctuating discourses involved in the display of analogue TV sets, the article critically examines how the object has been re-presented: aestheticized, interrogated, destabilised and reorganized as science, modernity, art, and media heritage. An interpretive approach drawing on Walter Benjamin and media archaeology is supported by ar…
Networked intimacy
This article asks whether a crisis of intimacy exists in the digital era to provoke an enquiry into the extent to which social media are transforming or transformed by personal relationships. I address the nature of late modern intimacy through the lens of ‘friendship’ and consider why Facebook embraces this affiliation. I then ask whether contemporary forms of public intimacy pre-date or are configured by social media. Software-centred approache…
Changing Media, Homes and Households
A gift to the community? Public relations, public art and the news media
The use of public art to regenerate former mining regions is now commonplace. This article assesses the function of public art within the public relations strategy of a mining company to facilitate planning and manage local opposition. A case study of the land sculpture, Northumberlandia (2012) and media-framing analysis demonstrate how corporately funded public art serves as a powerful public relations tool to justify the renaissance of surface …
Critical approaches to the media
Investigative journalism has been flourishing in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Recent changes in the media market place are now raising important questions about the future climate in which the profession operates and providing us with clues about the possible changing nature of its practices. By visiting the wider social context in which investigative journalism takes place, in this chapter we identify the economic and cultura…
Social Media and Personal Relationships
This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contribu
Wii play as a family’
The idea that video gaming is for the ‘whole family’, to be played in the communal space of the living room, has gained momentum since the release of Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation and Nintendo Wii. This article addresses the growing popularity in family-centred video gaming in the British context by examining the design, promotion, instatement and use of this new media technology in the home. Research on the domestication of media technology i…
The Material Form of the Television Set
This article offers a unique study of the material form of the television receiver between the 1930s and 1960s. Very little has been written to date on the history of the television set as an artefact. Yet its design and appearance played a major role in the acceptance of television in the home. The meanings of television sets are explored, from the design of wooden cabinets as family furniture to the shaping of portable sets as symbols of progre…
New Social Ties
Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourho
New Social Ties
New Social Ties
Written for a student and researcher audience in sociology, cultural studies and communication, New Social Ties draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy to explore contemporary changes in informal social ties in western societies. Deborah Chambers traces the shift from stable, fixed, and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid, voluntary and transient ties typified by computer mediated communication. The author arg…
Women and Journalism
Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain. Drawing on a variety of sources and dealing with a host of women journalists ranging from nineteenth century pioneers to Martha Gellhorn, Kate Adie and Veronica Guerin, the authors investigate the challenges women have faced in their struggle to establish reputations as professionals. This book …
Peer regulation of teenage sexual identities
This article examines the teenage policing of heterosexuality in schools and contributes to debates about teenage sexual moralities and heterosexual male agency. It reports on a qualitative study in England of the collective sexual values of 12‐ to 13‐year‐olds and 14‐ to 15‐year‐olds. Focus group interviews indicated that pupils developed a consensual sexual morality through collusive sex talk. Homophobic and misogynistic views and verbal abuse …
Teachers' views of teenage sexual morality
This paper examines the discourses of morality drawn on by secondary school teachers in England to describe their attitudes to pupils' developing sexual identities. Although teachers recognized their own formative role in the sexual socialization of pupils and identified homophobic attitudes among boys, they were ambivalent about how far they could intervene in homophobic bulling in school. However, they failed even to recognize the widespread mi…
The Practice of Cultural Studies
Identifies the main methods of researching culture. Demonstrates how theory can inform and enable the practice of research. Explores the ways in which research practices and methods both produce and are produced by knowledge. Looks at the implications of the 'cultural turn' for disciplines other than cultural studies. The Practice of Cultural Studies will be an essential text for students of cultural studies and a useful guide to others studying …
Begging for It
Begging for It
This article discusses the ways in which young women and young men are addressed through popular magazines in relation to their sexual subjectivity. It discusses the ways in which gendered attitudes towards sexuality and power are structured, and the ways in which moral agency and sexual practices are represented in UK magazines. The article is drawn from a study of ‘teenage sexual morality’, which explored the ways in which teenagers talk about …
Performing the Crisis
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and The Full Monty (1997), produced outside Hollywood in Australia and Great Britain, respectively, were widely screened and enthusiastically received by a global audience. In this article, we argue that these two films were part of a panic over the perceived “crisis in masculinity” produced by the decline of traditional male manual work and increases in women's economic and sexual autonomy—…
Representations of familialism in the British popular media
This article attempts to contribute to the re-centring of the family in cultural debates. It explores ways in which nation and race are appropriated to fix ideas about white familial identities today. A white, nuclear version of familialism continues to be naturalized and privileged within representations of the family in the British popular media. Three distinctive versions of the family are identified: an ‘ideal’ nuclear version, a ‘dysfunction…
The constraints of work and domestic schedules on women's leisure
This article reports on the findings of a research project which examined the effects of hours of work on the leisure behaviour of men and women. By focusing on the women in the sample, the evidence shows that women's scheduling priorities are shaped by domestic rather than leisure concerns. Due to their higher leisure expectations, male shift workers have greater difficulty in adjusting to shift work than women. The relationship between women's …
Symbolic equipment and the objects of leisure images
Leisure meanings require serious analysis in examining the role of leisure in society. This is illustrated through an example of the relationship between the mass production of leisure equipment and the creation of personal user meanings by focusing on product styling and the function, imagery and social use of symbolic objects such as the motorcycle. The author suggests that the ideology of leisure can be analysed by examining the connection of …
The Practice of Cultural Studies
Identifies the main methods of researching culture. Demonstrates how theory can inform and enable the practice of research. Explores the ways in which research practices and methods both produce and are produced by knowledge. Looks at the implications of the 'cultural turn' for disciplines other than cultural studies. The Practice of Cultural Studies will be an essential text for students of cultural studies and a useful guide to others studying …
Peer regulation of teenage sexual identities
This article examines the teenage policing of heterosexuality in schools and contributes to debates about teenage sexual moralities and heterosexual male agency. It reports on a qualitative study in England of the collective sexual values of 12‐ to 13‐year‐olds and 14‐ to 15‐year‐olds. Focus group interviews indicated that pupils developed a consensual sexual morality through collusive sex talk. Homophobic and misogynistic views and verbal abuse …
The constraints of work and domestic schedules on women's leisure
This article reports on the findings of a research project which examined the effects of hours of work on the leisure behaviour of men and women. By focusing on the women in the sample, the evidence shows that women's scheduling priorities are shaped by domestic rather than leisure concerns. Due to their higher leisure expectations, male shift workers have greater difficulty in adjusting to shift work than women. The relationship between women's …
Begging for It
This article discusses the ways in which young women and young men are addressed through popular magazines in relation to their sexual subjectivity. It discusses the ways in which gendered attitudes towards sexuality and power are structured, and the ways in which moral agency and sexual practices are represented in UK magazines. The article is drawn from a study of ‘teenage sexual morality’, which explored the ways in which teenagers talk about …
Networked intimacy
This article asks whether a crisis of intimacy exists in the digital era to provoke an enquiry into the extent to which social media are transforming or transformed by personal relationships. I address the nature of late modern intimacy through the lens of ‘friendship’ and consider why Facebook embraces this affiliation. I then ask whether contemporary forms of public intimacy pre-date or are configured by social media. Software-centred approache…
Teachers' views of teenage sexual morality
This paper examines the discourses of morality drawn on by secondary school teachers in England to describe their attitudes to pupils' developing sexual identities. Although teachers recognized their own formative role in the sexual socialization of pupils and identified homophobic attitudes among boys, they were ambivalent about how far they could intervene in homophobic bulling in school. However, they failed even to recognize the widespread mi…
No place like home
There is a need for serious study of home-based leisure, and of the theoretical and methodological issues posed. Over half of leisure time is spent within the home environment, but there is little evidence concerning the choice of the home as a leisure centre or the social constraints which limit out-of-home leisure opportunities. An analysis of the structure and meaning of homebased leisure in relation to routine domestic tasks is required to ch…
Wii play as a family’
The idea that video gaming is for the ‘whole family’, to be played in the communal space of the living room, has gained momentum since the release of Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation and Nintendo Wii. This article addresses the growing popularity in family-centred video gaming in the British context by examining the design, promotion, instatement and use of this new media technology in the home. Research on the domestication of media technology i…
Symbolic equipment and the objects of leisure images
Leisure meanings require serious analysis in examining the role of leisure in society. This is illustrated through an example of the relationship between the mass production of leisure equipment and the creation of personal user meanings by focusing on product styling and the function, imagery and social use of symbolic objects such as the motorcycle. The author suggests that the ideology of leisure can be analysed by examining the connection of …
Emerging temporalities in the multiscreen home
This article considers how changing screen practices are changing prevailing domestic temporal routines to generate new household dynamics. Underpinned by a case study of the multiscreen home, a media time approach offers a close analysis of the temporal dimensions of household screen use. The analysis draws on data about patterns of use of screen devices and streaming services from UK’s communications regulator Ofcom, combined with findings from…
Attuning smart home scripts to household and energy care
Past techno-feminist studies have shown that smart home technologies (SHTs) have inadvertently increased household demand for energy and reinforced gender disparities. This confirms the need to gauge any changes in smart home visions, given that the domestication of SHTs depends on accurate and reliable technology and messages to householders. To determine whether smart home visions are now supporting more gender-equitable household practices and…
Begging for It
Representations of familialism in the British popular media
This article attempts to contribute to the re-centring of the family in cultural debates. It explores ways in which nation and race are appropriated to fix ideas about white familial identities today. A white, nuclear version of familialism continues to be naturalized and privileged within representations of the family in the British popular media. Three distinctive versions of the family are identified: an ‘ideal’ nuclear version, a ‘dysfunction…
A gift to the community? Public relations, public art and the news media
The use of public art to regenerate former mining regions is now commonplace. This article assesses the function of public art within the public relations strategy of a mining company to facilitate planning and manage local opposition. A case study of the land sculpture, Northumberlandia (2012) and media-framing analysis demonstrate how corporately funded public art serves as a powerful public relations tool to justify the renaissance of surface …
The Material Form of the Television Set
This article offers a unique study of the material form of the television receiver between the 1930s and 1960s. Very little has been written to date on the history of the television set as an artefact. Yet its design and appearance played a major role in the acceptance of television in the home. The meanings of television sets are explored, from the design of wooden cabinets as family furniture to the shaping of portable sets as symbols of progre…
No place like home
There is a need for serious study of home-based leisure, and of the theoretical and methodological issues posed. Over half of leisure time is spent within the home environment, but there is little evidence concerning the choice of the home as a leisure centre or the social constraints which limit out-of-home leisure opportunities. An analysis of the structure and meaning of homebased leisure in relation to routine domestic tasks is required to ch…
Symbolic equipment and the objects of leisure images
Leisure meanings require serious analysis in examining the role of leisure in society. This is illustrated through an example of the relationship between the mass production of leisure equipment and the creation of personal user meanings by focusing on product styling and the function, imagery and social use of symbolic objects such as the motorcycle. The author suggests that the ideology of leisure can be analysed by examining the connection of …
The constraints of work and domestic schedules on women's leisure
This article reports on the findings of a research project which examined the effects of hours of work on the leisure behaviour of men and women. By focusing on the women in the sample, the evidence shows that women's scheduling priorities are shaped by domestic rather than leisure concerns. Due to their higher leisure expectations, male shift workers have greater difficulty in adjusting to shift work than women. The relationship between women's …
Representations of familialism in the British popular media
This article attempts to contribute to the re-centring of the family in cultural debates. It explores ways in which nation and race are appropriated to fix ideas about white familial identities today. A white, nuclear version of familialism continues to be naturalized and privileged within representations of the family in the British popular media. Three distinctive versions of the family are identified: an ‘ideal’ nuclear version, a ‘dysfunction…
Performing the Crisis
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and The Full Monty (1997), produced outside Hollywood in Australia and Great Britain, respectively, were widely screened and enthusiastically received by a global audience. In this article, we argue that these two films were part of a panic over the perceived “crisis in masculinity” produced by the decline of traditional male manual work and increases in women's economic and sexual autonomy—…
Begging for It
Begging for It
This article discusses the ways in which young women and young men are addressed through popular magazines in relation to their sexual subjectivity. It discusses the ways in which gendered attitudes towards sexuality and power are structured, and the ways in which moral agency and sexual practices are represented in UK magazines. The article is drawn from a study of ‘teenage sexual morality’, which explored the ways in which teenagers talk about …
Women and Journalism
Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain. Drawing on a variety of sources and dealing with a host of women journalists ranging from nineteenth century pioneers to Martha Gellhorn, Kate Adie and Veronica Guerin, the authors investigate the challenges women have faced in their struggle to establish reputations as professionals. This book …
Peer regulation of teenage sexual identities
This article examines the teenage policing of heterosexuality in schools and contributes to debates about teenage sexual moralities and heterosexual male agency. It reports on a qualitative study in England of the collective sexual values of 12‐ to 13‐year‐olds and 14‐ to 15‐year‐olds. Focus group interviews indicated that pupils developed a consensual sexual morality through collusive sex talk. Homophobic and misogynistic views and verbal abuse …
Teachers' views of teenage sexual morality
This paper examines the discourses of morality drawn on by secondary school teachers in England to describe their attitudes to pupils' developing sexual identities. Although teachers recognized their own formative role in the sexual socialization of pupils and identified homophobic attitudes among boys, they were ambivalent about how far they could intervene in homophobic bulling in school. However, they failed even to recognize the widespread mi…
The Practice of Cultural Studies
Identifies the main methods of researching culture. Demonstrates how theory can inform and enable the practice of research. Explores the ways in which research practices and methods both produce and are produced by knowledge. Looks at the implications of the 'cultural turn' for disciplines other than cultural studies. The Practice of Cultural Studies will be an essential text for students of cultural studies and a useful guide to others studying …
New Social Ties
Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourho
New Social Ties
New Social Ties
Written for a student and researcher audience in sociology, cultural studies and communication, New Social Ties draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy to explore contemporary changes in informal social ties in western societies. Deborah Chambers traces the shift from stable, fixed, and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid, voluntary and transient ties typified by computer mediated communication. The author arg…
The Material Form of the Television Set
This article offers a unique study of the material form of the television receiver between the 1930s and 1960s. Very little has been written to date on the history of the television set as an artefact. Yet its design and appearance played a major role in the acceptance of television in the home. The meanings of television sets are explored, from the design of wooden cabinets as family furniture to the shaping of portable sets as symbols of progre…
Wii play as a family’
The idea that video gaming is for the ‘whole family’, to be played in the communal space of the living room, has gained momentum since the release of Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation and Nintendo Wii. This article addresses the growing popularity in family-centred video gaming in the British context by examining the design, promotion, instatement and use of this new media technology in the home. Research on the domestication of media technology i…
Critical approaches to the media
Investigative journalism has been flourishing in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Recent changes in the media market place are now raising important questions about the future climate in which the profession operates and providing us with clues about the possible changing nature of its practices. By visiting the wider social context in which investigative journalism takes place, in this chapter we identify the economic and cultura…
Social Media and Personal Relationships
This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contribu
A gift to the community? Public relations, public art and the news media
The use of public art to regenerate former mining regions is now commonplace. This article assesses the function of public art within the public relations strategy of a mining company to facilitate planning and manage local opposition. A case study of the land sculpture, Northumberlandia (2012) and media-framing analysis demonstrate how corporately funded public art serves as a powerful public relations tool to justify the renaissance of surface …
Changing Media, Homes and Households
Networked intimacy
This article asks whether a crisis of intimacy exists in the digital era to provoke an enquiry into the extent to which social media are transforming or transformed by personal relationships. I address the nature of late modern intimacy through the lens of ‘friendship’ and consider why Facebook embraces this affiliation. I then ask whether contemporary forms of public intimacy pre-date or are configured by social media. Software-centred approache…
The Rise and Fall of the Analogue Television Set
This article explores the shifting materiality and meanings of television as an exhibited object. To consider the fluctuating discourses involved in the display of analogue TV sets, the article critically examines how the object has been re-presented: aestheticized, interrogated, destabilised and reorganized as science, modernity, art, and media heritage. An interpretive approach drawing on Walter Benjamin and media archaeology is supported by ar…
Domesticating the “Smarter Than You” Home. Gendered Agency Scripts Embedded in Smart Home Discourses
Smart home networked systems promise a mode of comfort, efficiency and convenience that infers the easing of housekeeping chores. They impact on the moral economy of the home in ways we barely understand. Drawing on feminist technology studies and domestication theory, this article investigates how gendered relations are assigned and legitimated in smart home marketing reports and advertisements to enquire whether men and women are invited to par…
Emerging temporalities in the multiscreen home
This article considers how changing screen practices are changing prevailing domestic temporal routines to generate new household dynamics. Underpinned by a case study of the multiscreen home, a media time approach offers a close analysis of the temporal dimensions of household screen use. The analysis draws on data about patterns of use of screen devices and streaming services from UK’s communications regulator Ofcom, combined with findings from…
Attuning smart home scripts to household and energy care
Past techno-feminist studies have shown that smart home technologies (SHTs) have inadvertently increased household demand for energy and reinforced gender disparities. This confirms the need to gauge any changes in smart home visions, given that the domestication of SHTs depends on accurate and reliable technology and messages to householders. To determine whether smart home visions are now supporting more gender-equitable household practices and…
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