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Saying hi to the Fonz
Mar. 26th, 2007 09:44 pmThe council has put one of those scrolling signs on the highway near my house to announce some roadworks starting next week. Apparently, there are "DEALYS EXPECTED". I'll keep an eye out for them then.
I'm in a good mood today because (1) it's my birthday, (2) I had a day off, and (3) while hanging out the washing, I had a most gobsmackingly brilliant idea for the audience research proposal I have to submit. Sometimes the answer is just right there all along, isn't it?
This afternoon I did some reading for said proposal, and in one article I came across a mention of a 1976 study into the relationship of Australian teenagers to the TV program, "Happy Days". The mention came about because it cited how the study found that the teenagers had "an illusion of intimacy" with the characters because some seventy percent of them said they would say hello to the characters if they saw them down the street. Hmmm. That doesn't sound right, does it? I mean, surely seventy percent of them didn't think the characters were real? Maybe the study actually did take that into account, and it just wasn't mentioned in the article.
I'm in a good mood today because (1) it's my birthday, (2) I had a day off, and (3) while hanging out the washing, I had a most gobsmackingly brilliant idea for the audience research proposal I have to submit. Sometimes the answer is just right there all along, isn't it?
This afternoon I did some reading for said proposal, and in one article I came across a mention of a 1976 study into the relationship of Australian teenagers to the TV program, "Happy Days". The mention came about because it cited how the study found that the teenagers had "an illusion of intimacy" with the characters because some seventy percent of them said they would say hello to the characters if they saw them down the street. Hmmm. That doesn't sound right, does it? I mean, surely seventy percent of them didn't think the characters were real? Maybe the study actually did take that into account, and it just wasn't mentioned in the article.