H Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 66646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9269-9944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Energy! The power of audience research as field, practice and critique
This contribution is the introduction to the Cultural Commons special issue on ‘Energy! The Power of Audience Research as Field, Practice and Critique’, edited by Joke Hermes, Linda Kopitz and Helen Wood. Through the lens of ‘energy’, this special issue explores audience research as a field, practice and critique that both demands and harnesses energy. Between tensions, currents and changes, in light of both rapid development and enduring underst…
Regulating for care: Reality television participation, changes to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code and protection for whom
This article traces the evolution of the rule changes to Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code in 2021, in response to a number of high-profile crises in reality TV in 2019, to regulate for better duty of care for participants. By analysing the rhetorical framework around Ofcom complaints, conducting a discourse analysis of Ofcom’s consultation on duty of care and interviews with senior broadcasting executives, it demonstrates how the statutory framework evo…
Contributions, conjunctures and care: Revisiting Formations of Class and Gender
Since its publication in 1997, Formations of Class and Gender has become a touchstone for research in sociology and feminist media and cultural studies due to the precise, evocative and generative way it pinpoints and theorises class and gender. Skeggs' careful ethnographic work - listening to 83 women training to be carers in the north of England over 12 years - provides tangible evidence of classed 'feelings' at the intersection of culture and …
I am against Americanizing England. Ordinary TV does not seem to have an elevating influence”: Class, gender, public anxiety, and the responses to the arrival of commercial television in the Mass Obse…
This article analyses (broadly lower middle-class) women’s responses to the arrival of commercial television in the UK in the 1950s, and seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of British women’s relationship to television, consumer capitalism, and modernity in the mid-twentieth century. While women are dominantly figured as especially prone to being seduced by commercial culture at this time, our analysis of material from the Mass Ob…
The race for space’: Capitalism, the country and the city in Britain under Covid-19
This article draws on the work of Raymond Williams to argue that under covid-19 the dominant ‘ways of seeing’ the countryside and the city in Britain are working to obscure the structural violence of capitalism. Cultural narratives of ‘exodus’ from the city abound in British media, fuelling a material ‘race for space’ as the middle class rush to buy up rural properties. The ‘cottagecore’ social media aesthetic has proliferated, offering privatize…
Clap for carers? From care gratitude to care justice
Cultural commons: Critical responses to Covid-19, part 2
It feels like we launched Cultural Commons – a short-form section committed to voicing radically contextualist, rapid response analyses – at an opportune moment, just as the world seemed to spin off its socio-political axis amid a global catastrophe. The crisis context of Covid-19 is generating reflections and re-evaluations that are pouring out in myriad forms, and it is now almost impossible to keep abreast of the pace of change and the reach o…
Culture and commoning in a time of coronavirus: Introduction to a Cultural Commons special section on Covid-19
Fuck the patriarchy: Towards an intersectional politics of irreverent rage
Fuck the Patriarchy: Towards an intersectional politics of irreverent rageMy impetus for writing this comes from noticing just how many times the word "fuck" comes up in contemporary feminist protests against injustice.In April 2019 Huffpost reports on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' response to whether she will see a female president in her time: "I fucking better" (Jenna Amatulli, 2019).Adding the word fuck ratchets up the urgency, as it also grabs the he…
From Judge Judy to Judge Rinder and Judge Geordie: Humour, emotion and ‘televisual legal consciousness’
This paper attempts to counter legal studies’ common reading of court TV shows by starting with an understanding of them as television, rather comparing them to ‘real courts’. It analyses two recent examples of British court TV shows – Judge Rinder (ITV, 2014–) and Judge Geordie (MTV, 2015) – to draw out how the text's form establishes particular kinds of ‘televisual legal consciousness’. Judge Rinder ’s daytime address and his camped authority a…
The Magaluf Girl: A public sex scandal and the digital class relations of social contagion
This article takes a case study of a particular media scandal, generated from Twitter feeds and a YouTube posting which propelled a young woman, who became known as “The Magaluf Girl,” into infamy. From discussion on social media sites her story also quickly hit the national tabloid headlines, the broadsheet press, as well as broadcast television. This case study is revealing of the way in which historical class relations are part of the contempo…
The politics of hyperbole on Geordie Shore: Class, gender, youth and excess
This article discusses MTV’s Geordie Shore against the backcloth of current social conditions for working-class youth. It suggests that the aesthetic, physical and discursive features of excess represent hyperbole, produced from within an affective situation of precariousness and routed through the labour relations of media visibility. Hyper-glamour, hyper-sex and hyper-emotion are responses to the ideologies of the future-projected, self-governi…
Television—the Housewife's Choice? The 1949 Mass Observation Television Directive, Reluctance and Revision
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in the 1949 Mass Observation Television Directive, in order to interrogate some of the broader assumptions around television's relationship with the housewife as key to its success. Against the backcloth of social histories revising ideas about gender, modernity and suburbia in the post-war period, this article considers some of the ways in which initia…
Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989
This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research,…
Introduction: Why 'television for women
This Screen dossier brings together contributions from a number of scholars, who reflect here on the question of ‘television for women’. We imagined this dossier as a way to broaden, internationalize and challenge the agenda of our AHRC-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’ (Warwick and De Montfort Universities), by asking about the significance of television programming that is or was addressed specifically to …
My Media Studies 0.0
At least one institution in the United Kingdom has taken the decision to remove the“media studies ” banner entirely from their courses. Arguing for the label to be reserved entirely for theoretical programs, they are in favor of separate degrees for individual practice-based subjects (Feldman 2008). Media studies has always strug-gled over the “theory/practice gap. ” Residing mainly in the new universities (old poly-technics) and populated by stu…
Oh goodness, I am watching reality TV: How methods make class in audience research
One of the most striking challenges encountered during the empirical stages of our audience research project, `Making Class and the Self through Televised Ethical Scenarios' (funded as part of the ESRC's Identities and Social Action programme), stemmed from how the different discursive resources held by our research participants impacted upon the kind of data collected. We argue that social class is reconfigured in each research encounter, not on…
The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television
Drawing on recent research from a project which included both textual and audience research, this paper will explore the involvement of women viewers with 'reality' TV as 'circuits of value'. These relationships cannot be adequately described as deconstructions of representations as in a text-reader framework of media theory. Rather, we examine these relationships as an extended social realm, whereby the immanent structure of reality television g…
Television is happening: Methodological considerations for capturing digital television reception
The more fragmented that engagements with the media become, the more important it is to understand changing audience practices for theories of social shaping. However, capturing the ways in which audiences respond to television is challenging when current technology makes new demands on the viewer: digital television packages offer 'interactive' choices coterminous with computer interfaces. This article proposes a new methodology and demonstrates…
What Reading the Romance Did for Us
A systemic approach to protection
A systemic approach to protection is one in which a department's policies, procedures, training and support resources operate in a coherent and mutually supportive way in the interests of the protection of children. Wendy Wood argues that the failure of departments to adopt a systemic approach represents a collusion with the abusers of children
An Eriksonian Approach to Conceptions of Friendship of Aggressive and Withdrawn Preadolescent Girls
A multi-assessment approach was used to examine problems in social development involving the interaction of the cognitive and affect domains. Teachers identified 30 aggressive, 30 withdrawn and 30 popular girls by the Behavioral Description Form, and then administered the Children's Friendship Expectancy Inventory that taps conventional morality, mutual activities, loyalty and empathy. A TAT-type projective test evaluated psychosocial adaptation …
The Shaksgam Valley and Aghil Range: Discussion
The Exploration of the Upper Yarkand Valley in 1914 by the De Filippi Expedition
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
Mount Everest: Discussion
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
Oh goodness, I am watching reality TV: How methods make class in audience research
One of the most striking challenges encountered during the empirical stages of our audience research project, `Making Class and the Self through Televised Ethical Scenarios' (funded as part of the ESRC's Identities and Social Action programme), stemmed from how the different discursive resources held by our research participants impacted upon the kind of data collected. We argue that social class is reconfigured in each research encounter, not on…
Clap for carers? From care gratitude to care justice
The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television
Drawing on recent research from a project which included both textual and audience research, this paper will explore the involvement of women viewers with 'reality' TV as 'circuits of value'. These relationships cannot be adequately described as deconstructions of representations as in a text-reader framework of media theory. Rather, we examine these relationships as an extended social realm, whereby the immanent structure of reality television g…
The politics of hyperbole on Geordie Shore: Class, gender, youth and excess
This article discusses MTV’s Geordie Shore against the backcloth of current social conditions for working-class youth. It suggests that the aesthetic, physical and discursive features of excess represent hyperbole, produced from within an affective situation of precariousness and routed through the labour relations of media visibility. Hyper-glamour, hyper-sex and hyper-emotion are responses to the ideologies of the future-projected, self-governi…
Fuck the patriarchy: Towards an intersectional politics of irreverent rage
Fuck the Patriarchy: Towards an intersectional politics of irreverent rageMy impetus for writing this comes from noticing just how many times the word "fuck" comes up in contemporary feminist protests against injustice.In April 2019 Huffpost reports on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' response to whether she will see a female president in her time: "I fucking better" (Jenna Amatulli, 2019).Adding the word fuck ratchets up the urgency, as it also grabs the he…
Culture and commoning in a time of coronavirus: Introduction to a Cultural Commons special section on Covid-19
The Magaluf Girl: A public sex scandal and the digital class relations of social contagion
This article takes a case study of a particular media scandal, generated from Twitter feeds and a YouTube posting which propelled a young woman, who became known as “The Magaluf Girl,” into infamy. From discussion on social media sites her story also quickly hit the national tabloid headlines, the broadsheet press, as well as broadcast television. This case study is revealing of the way in which historical class relations are part of the contempo…
The race for space’: Capitalism, the country and the city in Britain under Covid-19
This article draws on the work of Raymond Williams to argue that under covid-19 the dominant ‘ways of seeing’ the countryside and the city in Britain are working to obscure the structural violence of capitalism. Cultural narratives of ‘exodus’ from the city abound in British media, fuelling a material ‘race for space’ as the middle class rush to buy up rural properties. The ‘cottagecore’ social media aesthetic has proliferated, offering privatize…
Television is happening: Methodological considerations for capturing digital television reception
The more fragmented that engagements with the media become, the more important it is to understand changing audience practices for theories of social shaping. However, capturing the ways in which audiences respond to television is challenging when current technology makes new demands on the viewer: digital television packages offer 'interactive' choices coterminous with computer interfaces. This article proposes a new methodology and demonstrates…
Cultural commons: Critical responses to Covid-19, part 2
It feels like we launched Cultural Commons – a short-form section committed to voicing radically contextualist, rapid response analyses – at an opportune moment, just as the world seemed to spin off its socio-political axis amid a global catastrophe. The crisis context of Covid-19 is generating reflections and re-evaluations that are pouring out in myriad forms, and it is now almost impossible to keep abreast of the pace of change and the reach o…
Television—the Housewife's Choice? The 1949 Mass Observation Television Directive, Reluctance and Revision
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in the 1949 Mass Observation Television Directive, in order to interrogate some of the broader assumptions around television's relationship with the housewife as key to its success. Against the backcloth of social histories revising ideas about gender, modernity and suburbia in the post-war period, this article considers some of the ways in which initia…
I am against Americanizing England. Ordinary TV does not seem to have an elevating influence”: Class, gender, public anxiety, and the responses to the arrival of commercial television in the Mass Obse…
This article analyses (broadly lower middle-class) women’s responses to the arrival of commercial television in the UK in the 1950s, and seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of British women’s relationship to television, consumer capitalism, and modernity in the mid-twentieth century. While women are dominantly figured as especially prone to being seduced by commercial culture at this time, our analysis of material from the Mass Ob…
From Judge Judy to Judge Rinder and Judge Geordie: Humour, emotion and ‘televisual legal consciousness’
This paper attempts to counter legal studies’ common reading of court TV shows by starting with an understanding of them as television, rather comparing them to ‘real courts’. It analyses two recent examples of British court TV shows – Judge Rinder (ITV, 2014–) and Judge Geordie (MTV, 2015) – to draw out how the text's form establishes particular kinds of ‘televisual legal consciousness’. Judge Rinder ’s daytime address and his camped authority a…
Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989
This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research,…
Introduction: Why 'television for women
This Screen dossier brings together contributions from a number of scholars, who reflect here on the question of ‘television for women’. We imagined this dossier as a way to broaden, internationalize and challenge the agenda of our AHRC-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’ (Warwick and De Montfort Universities), by asking about the significance of television programming that is or was addressed specifically to …
What Reading the Romance Did for Us
An Eriksonian Approach to Conceptions of Friendship of Aggressive and Withdrawn Preadolescent Girls
A multi-assessment approach was used to examine problems in social development involving the interaction of the cognitive and affect domains. Teachers identified 30 aggressive, 30 withdrawn and 30 popular girls by the Behavioral Description Form, and then administered the Children's Friendship Expectancy Inventory that taps conventional morality, mutual activities, loyalty and empathy. A TAT-type projective test evaluated psychosocial adaptation …
Mount Everest: Discussion
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
Mount Everest: Discussion
that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
The Exploration of the Upper Yarkand Valley in 1914 by the De Filippi Expedition
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
The Shaksgam Valley and Aghil Range: Discussion
An Eriksonian Approach to Conceptions of Friendship of Aggressive and Withdrawn Preadolescent Girls
A multi-assessment approach was used to examine problems in social development involving the interaction of the cognitive and affect domains. Teachers identified 30 aggressive, 30 withdrawn and 30 popular girls by the Behavioral Description Form, and then administered the Children's Friendship Expectancy Inventory that taps conventional morality, mutual activities, loyalty and empathy. A TAT-type projective test evaluated psychosocial adaptation …
A systemic approach to protection
A systemic approach to protection is one in which a department's policies, procedures, training and support resources operate in a coherent and mutually supportive way in the interests of the protection of children. Wendy Wood argues that the failure of departments to adopt a systemic approach represents a collusion with the abusers of children
What Reading the Romance Did for Us
Television is happening: Methodological considerations for capturing digital television reception
The more fragmented that engagements with the media become, the more important it is to understand changing audience practices for theories of social shaping. However, capturing the ways in which audiences respond to television is challenging when current technology makes new demands on the viewer: digital television packages offer 'interactive' choices coterminous with computer interfaces. This article proposes a new methodology and demonstrates…
My Media Studies 0.0
At least one institution in the United Kingdom has taken the decision to remove the“media studies ” banner entirely from their courses. Arguing for the label to be reserved entirely for theoretical programs, they are in favor of separate degrees for individual practice-based subjects (Feldman 2008). Media studies has always strug-gled over the “theory/practice gap. ” Residing mainly in the new universities (old poly-technics) and populated by stu…
Oh goodness, I am watching reality TV: How methods make class in audience research
One of the most striking challenges encountered during the empirical stages of our audience research project, `Making Class and the Self through Televised Ethical Scenarios' (funded as part of the ESRC's Identities and Social Action programme), stemmed from how the different discursive resources held by our research participants impacted upon the kind of data collected. We argue that social class is reconfigured in each research encounter, not on…
The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television
Drawing on recent research from a project which included both textual and audience research, this paper will explore the involvement of women viewers with 'reality' TV as 'circuits of value'. These relationships cannot be adequately described as deconstructions of representations as in a text-reader framework of media theory. Rather, we examine these relationships as an extended social realm, whereby the immanent structure of reality television g…
Researching the History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989
This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research,…
Introduction: Why 'television for women
This Screen dossier brings together contributions from a number of scholars, who reflect here on the question of ‘television for women’. We imagined this dossier as a way to broaden, internationalize and challenge the agenda of our AHRC-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’ (Warwick and De Montfort Universities), by asking about the significance of television programming that is or was addressed specifically to …
Television—the Housewife's Choice? The 1949 Mass Observation Television Directive, Reluctance and Revision
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in the 1949 Mass Observation Television Directive, in order to interrogate some of the broader assumptions around television's relationship with the housewife as key to its success. Against the backcloth of social histories revising ideas about gender, modernity and suburbia in the post-war period, this article considers some of the ways in which initia…
The politics of hyperbole on Geordie Shore: Class, gender, youth and excess
This article discusses MTV’s Geordie Shore against the backcloth of current social conditions for working-class youth. It suggests that the aesthetic, physical and discursive features of excess represent hyperbole, produced from within an affective situation of precariousness and routed through the labour relations of media visibility. Hyper-glamour, hyper-sex and hyper-emotion are responses to the ideologies of the future-projected, self-governi…
From Judge Judy to Judge Rinder and Judge Geordie: Humour, emotion and ‘televisual legal consciousness’
This paper attempts to counter legal studies’ common reading of court TV shows by starting with an understanding of them as television, rather comparing them to ‘real courts’. It analyses two recent examples of British court TV shows – Judge Rinder (ITV, 2014–) and Judge Geordie (MTV, 2015) – to draw out how the text's form establishes particular kinds of ‘televisual legal consciousness’. Judge Rinder ’s daytime address and his camped authority a…
The Magaluf Girl: A public sex scandal and the digital class relations of social contagion
This article takes a case study of a particular media scandal, generated from Twitter feeds and a YouTube posting which propelled a young woman, who became known as “The Magaluf Girl,” into infamy. From discussion on social media sites her story also quickly hit the national tabloid headlines, the broadsheet press, as well as broadcast television. This case study is revealing of the way in which historical class relations are part of the contempo…
Fuck the patriarchy: Towards an intersectional politics of irreverent rage
Fuck the Patriarchy: Towards an intersectional politics of irreverent rageMy impetus for writing this comes from noticing just how many times the word "fuck" comes up in contemporary feminist protests against injustice.In April 2019 Huffpost reports on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' response to whether she will see a female president in her time: "I fucking better" (Jenna Amatulli, 2019).Adding the word fuck ratchets up the urgency, as it also grabs the he…
Clap for carers? From care gratitude to care justice
Cultural commons: Critical responses to Covid-19, part 2
It feels like we launched Cultural Commons – a short-form section committed to voicing radically contextualist, rapid response analyses – at an opportune moment, just as the world seemed to spin off its socio-political axis amid a global catastrophe. The crisis context of Covid-19 is generating reflections and re-evaluations that are pouring out in myriad forms, and it is now almost impossible to keep abreast of the pace of change and the reach o…
Culture and commoning in a time of coronavirus: Introduction to a Cultural Commons special section on Covid-19
I am against Americanizing England. Ordinary TV does not seem to have an elevating influence”: Class, gender, public anxiety, and the responses to the arrival of commercial television in the Mass Obse…
This article analyses (broadly lower middle-class) women’s responses to the arrival of commercial television in the UK in the 1950s, and seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of British women’s relationship to television, consumer capitalism, and modernity in the mid-twentieth century. While women are dominantly figured as especially prone to being seduced by commercial culture at this time, our analysis of material from the Mass Ob…
The race for space’: Capitalism, the country and the city in Britain under Covid-19
This article draws on the work of Raymond Williams to argue that under covid-19 the dominant ‘ways of seeing’ the countryside and the city in Britain are working to obscure the structural violence of capitalism. Cultural narratives of ‘exodus’ from the city abound in British media, fuelling a material ‘race for space’ as the middle class rush to buy up rural properties. The ‘cottagecore’ social media aesthetic has proliferated, offering privatize…
Contributions, conjunctures and care: Revisiting Formations of Class and Gender
Since its publication in 1997, Formations of Class and Gender has become a touchstone for research in sociology and feminist media and cultural studies due to the precise, evocative and generative way it pinpoints and theorises class and gender. Skeggs' careful ethnographic work - listening to 83 women training to be carers in the north of England over 12 years - provides tangible evidence of classed 'feelings' at the intersection of culture and …
Energy! The power of audience research as field, practice and critique
This contribution is the introduction to the Cultural Commons special issue on ‘Energy! The Power of Audience Research as Field, Practice and Critique’, edited by Joke Hermes, Linda Kopitz and Helen Wood. Through the lens of ‘energy’, this special issue explores audience research as a field, practice and critique that both demands and harnesses energy. Between tensions, currents and changes, in light of both rapid development and enduring underst…
Regulating for care: Reality television participation, changes to the Ofcom Broadcasting Code and protection for whom
This article traces the evolution of the rule changes to Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code in 2021, in response to a number of high-profile crises in reality TV in 2019, to regulate for better duty of care for participants. By analysing the rhetorical framework around Ofcom complaints, conducting a discourse analysis of Ofcom’s consultation on duty of care and interviews with senior broadcasting executives, it demonstrates how the statutory framework evo…
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