Week Commencing 28th July

I have not planned to do any research this week and will not be able to do any because I am busy all week with family. 

Research - Week Commencing 21st July

Week Commencing	Task	Resources	Achieved/Articles found
30th June 2014	Internet research for articles	Google Scholar -"Gender Roles In Friends Chandler Bing"	Four detailed articles.
7th July 2014	Internet research for articles	Google Scholar – continuing on the “Gender Roles in Friends Chandler Bing” search	Five detailed articles.
14th July 2014	Internet research Planning/seeing if London trip would be useful	Google Scholar – continuing on the “gender roles in Friends Chandler Bing” Google – Searching Libraries in London and using their search tools to find out if they have anything that would be useful to me	Three detailed articles
21st July 2014	Internet research Looking through previously found articles' references	Google Scholar Articles	Two articles from "Friends and Masculinity" references

Article Title	Original Source	Pros/limitations	Key Quotes
Gender Roles on Prime-time Network Television: Demographics and Behaviours	Jack Glascock. Found through using references from “Friends & Masculinity”	-       About multiple TV shows, can use to compare to Friends. -       Lots of stats and percentages.
What ‘Friends’ Has Going For It	Caryn James, 2002. The New York Times.	-        Talks about how the show has been a success partly because in times of falling statistics, they would increase views by adding in a rather female favoured storyline, for example a pregnancy. This suggests that a lot more women were watching the show by the point that the article was written (2002). This could mean suggest that gender roles and gender based topics could be one of the key reasons the show was a success.

Research - Week Commencing 21st July

My plan for this week is below. I have not planned for a lot to be done this week as I am going to be quite busy and will not have a lot of time free for EPQ this week.

Week Commencing	Task	Resources	Achieved/Articles found
30th June 2014	Internet research for articles	Google Scholar - "Gender Roles In Friends Chandler Bing"	Four detailed articles.
7th July 2014	Internet research for articles	Google Scholar – continuing on the “Gender Roles in Friends Chandler Bing” search	Five detailed articles.
14th July 2014	Internet research Planning/seeing if London trip would be useful	Google Scholar – continuing on the “gender roles in Friends Chandler Bing” Google – Searching Libraries in London and using their search tools to find out if they have anything that would be useful to me
21st July 2014	Internet research	Looking through previously found articles' references

Research - Week Commencing 14th July

Below is the two tables that show my plans for research, how successful the week what and what articles I actually found.

Week Commencing	Task	Resources	Achieved/Articles found
30th June 2014	Internet research for articles	Google Scholar -"Gender Roles In Friends Chandler Bing"	Four detailed articles.
7th July 2014	Internet research for articles	Google Scholar – continuing on the “Gender Roles in Friends Chandler Bing” search	Five detailed articles.
14th July 2014	Internet research Planning/seeing if  London trip would be useful	Google Scholar - continuing on the "Gender Roles in Friends Chandler Bing" search Google – Searching Libraries in London and using their search tools to find out if they have anything that would be useful to me	3 detailed articles Did not manage to find any good leads on this yet. I will continue this task into the next week.

Article Title	Original Source	Pros/limitations	Key Quotes
The Internet World of Fan Finction – A thesis about the origin and continuation of fan written stories based on different media forms, eg Friends.	Melissa J. Herzing, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Thesis submitted as part of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.	-       A few mentions of Friends in relation to gender and how the audience sees this representation and uses it. -       Not all about Friends and gender	“It touches on many areas that have been the focus of conventional studies, such as gender issues, group formation and maintenance, computer-mediated communication, and identity.”
The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed	Mary M. Dalton, Laura R. Linder.	-       Many mentions of Friends, not many related to gender roles.	Page 225, “Today’s young women model their hair - not their character – on Rachel Green. If they notice her workplace (in fashion, of course) at all, they see it as the site of seduction of her younger, handsome, male assistant.”
Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding – the portrayal of weddings in film and TV.	Cece Otnes, Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck.	-       One mention of Friends in relation to the seventh series’ wedding (Chandler and Monica) and the massive audience of 30 million that it brought to watch. I could relate this to how the this reinforces female gender roles and beliefs of having a big wedding.	Page 2, “More recently, 30 million viewers watched Chandler and Monica tie the knot at the end of the seventh season of  Friends in 2001.”