Karen E Riggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen E Riggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Riggs |
| SIGNATURE | RIGGS K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Television Use in a Retirement Community
Mass media scholarship traditionally has depicted elderly viewers of television as an accepting and homogeneous audience. This ethnographic study of a retirement community researches the relationship between individuals and their community in the development of discourse that influences program choices and discussion of content. In this community of well-educated, upper middle-class retirees, interest in living in the present, a preference for qu…
The case of the mysterious ritual
Through textual analysis, the author suggests that television's traditional mystery formula encourages audiences to view these programs ritually. Two examples, Murder, She Wrote and Perry Mason, are compared for similar elements. Citing research linking the genre with elderly women viewers, the author suggests an agenda for ethnographic study of this relationship. Through qualitative methods, the author suggests, research can show how ritualistic…
Coping with grazing
Strategies to speed up the flow of viewers between prime‐time programs were adopted by the television networks in the early 1990s. This study compared the types and lengths of transitions between time prime‐time programs for the four broadcast networks in two seasons, 1992‐93 and 1993‐94. Results showed that all four networks had increasingly adopted production strategies for program starts, endings, and breaks that accelerated audience flow betw…
Televised Sports and Ritual
Examination of idiosyncratic sports rituals engaged in by viewers of televised sports revealed complex patterns of negotiation and participation in the televised events. In addition to being well-recognized tools for defining group membership, personal rituals revealed the creation of multistranded connections between fans and teams or players, despite separation by an electronic wall. Personal rituals revealed a balancing of the need for suspens…
Manufactured conflict in the 1992 Olympics
Textual analysis of U.S. television discourse during the 1992 Winter Olympics supplies a rich source for deconstructing the creation of national “enemies” and “friends.” Scripted and off‐the‐cuff remarks to the television audience by network hosts and commentators reveal an ideology reflective of unfolding U.S. foreign policy at the time of a disintegrating Soviet Union and the economic rise of Germany and Japan. CBS and TNT commentary was analyz…
Manufactured conflict in the 1992 Olympics
Textual analysis of U.S. television discourse during the 1992 Winter Olympics supplies a rich source for deconstructing the creation of national “enemies” and “friends.” Scripted and off‐the‐cuff remarks to the television audience by network hosts and commentators reveal an ideology reflective of unfolding U.S. foreign policy at the time of a disintegrating Soviet Union and the economic rise of Germany and Japan. CBS and TNT commentary was analyz…
Televised Sports and Ritual
Examination of idiosyncratic sports rituals engaged in by viewers of televised sports revealed complex patterns of negotiation and participation in the televised events. In addition to being well-recognized tools for defining group membership, personal rituals revealed the creation of multistranded connections between fans and teams or players, despite separation by an electronic wall. Personal rituals revealed a balancing of the need for suspens…
Coping with grazing
Strategies to speed up the flow of viewers between prime‐time programs were adopted by the television networks in the early 1990s. This study compared the types and lengths of transitions between time prime‐time programs for the four broadcast networks in two seasons, 1992‐93 and 1993‐94. Results showed that all four networks had increasingly adopted production strategies for program starts, endings, and breaks that accelerated audience flow betw…
Manufactured conflict in the 1992 Olympics
Textual analysis of U.S. television discourse during the 1992 Winter Olympics supplies a rich source for deconstructing the creation of national “enemies” and “friends.” Scripted and off‐the‐cuff remarks to the television audience by network hosts and commentators reveal an ideology reflective of unfolding U.S. foreign policy at the time of a disintegrating Soviet Union and the economic rise of Germany and Japan. CBS and TNT commentary was analyz…
Televised Sports and Ritual
Examination of idiosyncratic sports rituals engaged in by viewers of televised sports revealed complex patterns of negotiation and participation in the televised events. In addition to being well-recognized tools for defining group membership, personal rituals revealed the creation of multistranded connections between fans and teams or players, despite separation by an electronic wall. Personal rituals revealed a balancing of the need for suspens…
Coping with grazing
Strategies to speed up the flow of viewers between prime‐time programs were adopted by the television networks in the early 1990s. This study compared the types and lengths of transitions between time prime‐time programs for the four broadcast networks in two seasons, 1992‐93 and 1993‐94. Results showed that all four networks had increasingly adopted production strategies for program starts, endings, and breaks that accelerated audience flow betw…
Television Use in a Retirement Community
Mass media scholarship traditionally has depicted elderly viewers of television as an accepting and homogeneous audience. This ethnographic study of a retirement community researches the relationship between individuals and their community in the development of discourse that influences program choices and discussion of content. In this community of well-educated, upper middle-class retirees, interest in living in the present, a preference for qu…
The case of the mysterious ritual
Through textual analysis, the author suggests that television's traditional mystery formula encourages audiences to view these programs ritually. Two examples, Murder, She Wrote and Perry Mason, are compared for similar elements. Citing research linking the genre with elderly women viewers, the author suggests an agenda for ethnographic study of this relationship. Through qualitative methods, the author suggests, research can show how ritualistic…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works)