What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry

在演什么？电视行业的反思课程是在学术、媒体和公众讨论社会阶层和电视行业的背景下进行的。从工薪阶层进入该行业的政策担忧，到班级作为BAFTA奖获得者演讲中的一个突出讨论点，班级对全国关于电视的对话非常重要。学术研究表明，阶级在塑造电视节目的受托内容、谁在荧屏上和银幕下扮演角色，以及播出并提供下载或流媒体的社会阶层表现形式方面至关重要。在演什么？理解阶级是身份的一个方面，本质上与其他人口统计特征和身份标志，如性别、种族和残疾交织在一起。这一想法与最近的政策和行业从交叉角度衡量和评估劳动力和受众的尝试相一致。这种对课堂的交叉理解出现在关于屏幕表现的学术辩论中。谁被算作工人阶级，阶级如何与种族和性别联系在一起，以及不准确或扭曲的工人阶级生活版本无法与观众联系起来，这些都是最近研究中的重要主题。尽管文学在塑造我们如何理解社会阶层在电视行业中的重要性方面发挥了关键作用，但迄今为止，英国还没有一项研究项目完全联系到谁制作、制作了什么，以及阶级是如何表现和理解的问题。即使在这个丰富的研究主体中，以及伴随而来的公众、从业者和政策利益，问题仍然没有得到回答：交叉理解的社会阶层对当代电视制作的影响是什么？社会阶层在当代电视上是如何表现的？观众如何消费、理解和回应电视上的课程？这个项目旨在回答这些相互关联的问题，坐在相互关联的文献的交叉点上，这些文献分别与这些问题作了斗争。与BBC和第四频道合作(BBC试播正在进行中)正在上演什么？将分析两部案例剧集的制作、消费和接受情况。在这样做的过程中，该项目将谁生产、生产什么以及如何表示和理解类的问题联系在一起。在生产、表现和消费的背景下理解阶级，并将对文学做出重大贡献，因为采用这种方法进行研究的研究数量有限。此外，将这三个领域的分析联系起来，还没有看到一个研究项目与社会阶层的交叉方法。该项目的分析遵循四种相辅相成的方法：每个节目的网络人种学；对专员、制片人、选角导演和银幕表演者以及基层工作人员的访谈；对节目的框架和文本分析；以及对项目合作伙伴提供并通过实地工作收集的受众数据的分析。该项目将对电视研究和创意产业做出重大、具体的贡献，为文化和媒体研究学者提供见解，以及公共、政策和从业者受众网络。这些受众将使用各种方法参与，包括博客、讲习班、政策活动、报告、音频和电影材料以及开放获取的书籍和学术论文。在演什么？利用约翰逊和奥布莱恩担任PI和Co-I的经验和跟踪记录，为新兴的职业早期学术声音从Minor to Co-I提供一个重大项目，并将为博士后研究员提供丰富的发展空间。技能和经验的结合将使AHRC资助的研究对学术受众产生影响，并解决英国核心创意产业之一的不平等问题

What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry is situated in the context of academic, media, and public discussions about social class and the TV industry. From policy concerns about working class access to the sector, through to class as a prominent point of discussion in BAFTA award winners' speeches, class is important to national conversations about TV. Academic research has demonstrated that class is crucial in shaping what gets commissioned for television, who gets roles on and off screen, and the sorts of representations of social class that are broadcast and made available to download or stream. What's on? understands class is an aspect of identity that is intrinsically entwined with other demographic characteristics and markers of identity such as gender, race and disability. This idea aligns with the recent policy and industry attempts to measure and evaluate workforces and audiences from an intersectional perspective. This intersectional understanding of class is present in academic debates over on-screen representation. Who is counted as working class, how class is connected to race and gender, for example, and the way inaccurate or distorted versions of working class life fail to connect to audiences, have all been important themes in recent research.Whilst the literature has been crucial in shaping how we understand the importance of social class in the television industry, there has, as yet, not been a UK research project that fully connects the questions of who produces, what is made and how class is represented and understood. Even within this rich body of research, and the accompanying public, practitioner, and policy interest, questions remain unanswered: What is the impact of social class, understood intersectionally, on contemporary TV production? How is social class represented on contemporary TV? And how do audiences consume, understand, and respond to class on TV? This project is designed to answer these connected questions, sitting at the intersection of the connected literatures that have grappled, separately, with these issues. Working in partnership with the BBC and Channel 4 (BBC pilot ongoing) What's on? will analyse the production, consumption, and reception of two case study drama series. In doing so, the project connects questions of who produces, what is made, and how class is represented and understood. Understanding class in the context of production, representation, and consumption and will make a significant contribution to the literature, given the limited number of studies that have pursued this approach to research. Moreover, linking these three areas of analysis has yet to see a research project with an intersectional approach to social class. The analysis in the project follows four complementary methodologies to produce: a network ethnography for each programme; interviews with commissioners, producers, casting directors and on-screen performers, as well as below the line staff; a framing and textual analysis of the programmes; and analysis of audience data provided from project partners and collected by fieldwork. The project will make a major, specific, contribution to television studies and creative industries, with insights for cultural and media studies scholars, alongside a network of public, policy, and practitioner audiences. These audiences will be engaged using a variety of methods, including a blog, workshops, policy events, reports, audio and film material, as well as open access book and academic papers. What's on? draws on the experience and track records of Johnson and O'Brien as PI and Co-I, offers the opportunity for the emerging early career academic voice of Minor to Co-I a major project, and will offer a wealth of development for a postdoctoral research fellow. The combination of skills and experience will allow AHRC funded research to make an impact on academic audiences and to address inequality in one of Britain's core creative industries