he current digital era offers new scenarios of media consumption and new meeting points between media products and their audiences. In fact, both elements are influenced by the so-called digital revolution. The teens’ consumption of television serialized fiction has to be analyzed within this complex contextual framework. This thesis is the result of a reception analysis about young people’s consumption of television serialized fiction. Its object of study is demarcated by the consumption relationship that is established between two material objects: the adolescents, considered as a particular media audience, and the television serialized fiction, analyzed in relation to the television macrogenre Fiction. First, these two material objects are contextualized and conceptualized (chapter 1). On one hand, adolescence is considered as a psychosocial process of human growth, characterized by changes of different nature (physical, psychological or social ones, i.e.). This process marks the passage between childhood and adulthood, depending and varying according to the environment that surrounds the individuals. On the other hand, the television serialized fiction is described within the television macrogenre Fiction, as defined by Euromonitor Observatory. In particular, the study stresses the importance of teen series, which are those television fictional products specifically targeted at a young audience, because of the idea that they can be particularly appealing to teenagers. This reception study belongs to a framework typical of Cultural studies and, particularly, of Audience studies (chapter 2). For this reason it is possible to emphasize several key concepts, as well as audiences’ activity, the importance of the consumption situation or the uses that audiences make of mass media. The whole planning of the study has tried to answer to the need, underlined by several authors, of adapting the research methods and techniques to the new generations (chapter 3). For this reason it has been decided to analyze young people’s consumption of television serialized fiction in relation to adolescents’ media and free time diet. Besides, even in the implementation of the analysis techniques (survey through questionnaire and focus groups), new media technologies have been used. The main results of the study, obtained through crossing the data of both techniques, are in line with the main previous studies analyzed. This fact confirms the existence of several similarities between the adolescents of this sample and other groups studied in previous researches. In particular, the results have been divided into three thematic areas: adolescents’ free time and media diet; television consumption; young people’s consumption of television serialized fiction (chapter 4). Finally, this thesis enlightens some interesting elements that permit to study in depth several aspects of young people’s consumption of television serialized fiction. Among these elements, which are discussed in the conclusions of the study (chapter 5), the following ones can be pointed out: the advantages that adolescents assign to the different media used to watch serialized fiction; the adolescents’ claims for some fiction contents that are not available; the social functions of serialized fiction in young people’s life; the specific adolescent consumption of teen series.
El consum adolescent de la ficció seriada televisiva
Fedele , M. (Author). 8 Jul 2011
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis