Status Updates From Reading Television

“Our argument in favour of television in fact, mirrored feminism’s argument for women’s culture. Television suffered categorical disadvantage in repute because (we argued) its characteristic mode was oral not literate, whereas’dominant culture’ (by which we meant modernism) was militantly committed to print-literacy and the values associated with that”

book about television forgets it’s about television and spends a whole chapter talking about the sexual and social codes of dancing until the last two pages

fascinating what they’re choosing to focus on in the “content analysis” section. i love how statistics works in the 1970s. here are some things we noticed down to the finest detail. no attempt to explain was the sociopolitical bias behind these numbers might mean. or to acknowledge the fact that the sample size was 55x bigger for one category over another.