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Index 183
Turkle, Sherry 122
Turner, Ted 150, 152

uncertainty 162–3, 165, 168, 171, 175–6, 179, 180
United States of America 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 63, 112, 114, 134, 154, 164, 179, 182n;
see also Americocentrism
Urry, J. see Lash, S. and Urry, J.
uses and gratifications research 39, 40–2, 44, 47, 50, 69, 77, 139, 181n, 182n, 183n, 186n
Utopia 180

van Maanen, John 185n
van Zoonen, Liesbet 110, 115
VARA 28, 29
VCRs see video recorders
Veronica (broadcasting organization) 30
video recorders (VCRs) 10, 11–12, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, 67, 122, 143, 147, 174;
and Warlpiri people 158–9, 161
video shops 11
viewer as ideal consumer 55, 64
viewing habits, diversity in 48–51, 69, 124, 164, 174, 179, 185n
violence (on television) 6
voyeurism:
and cinema 22, 24, 52;
and television 24
VPRO 28, 29

Walker, Alice, The Color Purple 128
Walkerdine, Valerie 52
Wallerstein, Immanuel 162, 165, 178
Wark, McKenzie 150, 152, 161
Warlpiri 158–9, 161
watching television see television, watching
Widows 187n
Wigbold, Herman 30
Williams, Raymond 2
Willis, Paul 52
Wilson, Elizabeth 107
women:
and class 113–14, 115–16, 117, 118;
definitions of (identity) 118, 119–29;
as fictional heroines 85–97, 105;
positive and negative representations of 85, 91–2;
stereotyping of 118, 187n;
as television viewers 20, 49–50, 85–97, 109–29;
and use of technology 122;
women’s movement see feminism