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"Obviously I'm not a dick, right?": positioning masculine identities on the mediated conversational floor of a television game show

"Obviously I`m not a dick, right?": Positionierung von Männlichkeit auf der medialisierten Positionsebene einer Datingshow

"In this essay the author will look at a group of four male students watching the dating and game show 'Take Me Out' and in this context analyze the construction of masculinities through conversational practice. The theoretical background of this study is provided by the analysis of media consumption as interaction on a 'mediated conversational floor' put forward by Helen Wood, and the positioning…

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Creator

  • Westheuser, Linus

Subject

  • Sociology & anthropology
  • Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
  • News media, journalism, publishing
  • Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
  • Broadcasting, Telecommunication
  • Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
  • Great Britain
  • masculinity
  • identity
  • television series
  • …
  • Mass media

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel