Meanings of audiences: comparative discourses
"In today's thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, and powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has consi…
The author provides insight into the world of British independent music. She describes and analyses the behaviour of fans, artists and music industry professionals.
The transformations of people's relations to media content, technologies and institutions raise new methodological challenges and opportunities for audience research. This edited volume contributes to the development of the repertoire of methods and methodologies for audience re…
The authors present several arguments in this controversial and topical debate about the effects of mass media and the role of media in framing and responding to events.
"Audiences are problematic and, as such, the study of audiences has represented a key site of activity in the social sciences and humanities. In Audiences, the authors offer a timely review of the past 50 years of theoretical and methodological debate to argue the case for a par…
An understanding of how we learn to watch television and why we watch television is integral in any examination of television history, industry or regulation. This text is specifically designed to complement existing texts from a wide variety of related fields of study.
"The sites of major media organizations--CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others--provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, use…
"The websites of major media organizations -- CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others -- provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economi…