Research - Week Commencing 7th July

End of the week update for week commencing the 7th of July. I found 5 detailed articles on the same search as last time. Over the next few weeks I hope to research searching other key words as well as using other methods.

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.

Title/Overview	Original Source	Pros/limitations	Key Quotes
“Friends – Main characters section” – Detailed eBook about all the main characters, re-occurring characters, each season and select episodes.	Baba Bing	-       Very detailed -       Will be useful when I need to choose my episodes -       Can use what it written to relate to how this reflects how they follow gender stereotypes -       Very long, a lot may not be relevant
Conversational Implicature Analysis of Humor in American Situation Comedy “Friends”	Yao Xiaosu, University Gent.	-       Only a couple of parts are related to gender roles -	“The result reveals that each gender uses humor in a distinctively different ways.”
The American way of comedy - A comprehensive analysis of humor on the basis of the US sitcom 'Friends'	Irina Wamsler, Thesis (MA), American Studies – Linguistics	-       The part about gender in Friends is blocked and you have to buy the book to see it	“But multilayered and gender differences may become apparent.” “Men-targeted or women-targeted humor will be analyzed, as well as the handling of sexuality.”
A comparative analysis of subtitling strategies – Culture Specific Items in the series Friends	Han Zhao (MA) , AUT Univeristy	-       A few mentions of gender and Friends -       Not a lot related to gender and Friends (not enough)
Masculinity and Popular Television (search for Friends in search bar)	Rebecca Feasey, Edinburgh University	-       Many mentions of Friends, but very spread out and only odd sentences here and there	“Friends can be seen to challenge the strict boarders that ‘tend to structure much of men’s social interaction’”. “Homosexuality is never turned into a joke on Friends.”