Addisalem Tebikew Yallew

The Dish Watchers

Free-to¿air Satellite Television Use and its Influence on the Media Preferences and World Outlook of Viewers

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Produktbeschreibung

Satellite communication knows no boundaries. And when applied to television, it has become an agent of globalization that has brought people and events around the world closer to one another. This paper analyses the use and possible impacts of free-to-air satellite television on Ethiopian watches media preferences, and on the way they view themselves and the rest of the world. Using quantitative surveys and qualitative focus group discussions, the paper attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of the individual audience as well as the social context of watching by using the uses and gratifications and ethnographic audience research approaches. It was found out that in the face of the ever expanding free-to-air satellite television use the state-run broadcaster (ETV) is losing its audience to the dishes. The focus group discussions revealed that the audiences of the free-to-air satellite television use their dishes taking into consideration their lived reality. Unlike the thoughts articulated in the cultural imperialism paradigm, the watchers seem to be active decoders of the content they receive from their dishes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9783659356544
• ISBN-10: 3659356549
• Artikelnr.: 37465662

Autorenporträt

Addisalem Tebikew Yallew is a lecturer of communication, journalism, and English language and literature at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. She has been teaching in the university since 2005. Addisalem is also an aspiring researcher interested in conducting interdisciplinary research in media, communication, cultural, literary and gender studies.