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.