Media and audiences : new perspectives / Karen Ross and Virginia Nightingale.
"A simple yet excellent overview of the multilayered path of audience research, tracing its evolution over the last century!"--"European Journal of Communication." How has the concept of 'the audience' changed over the past 50 years? How do audiences become producers an...
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| Language: | English |
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Maidenhead :
Open University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Issues in cultural and media studies.
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| Summary: | "A simple yet excellent overview of the multilayered path of audience research, tracing its evolution over the last century!"--"European Journal of Communication." How has the concept of 'the audience' changed over the past 50 years? How do audiences become producers and not just consumers of media texts? How are new media affecting the ways in which audiences are researched? The audience has been a central concept in both in media and cultural studies for some considerable time, not least because there seems little point exploring forms of increasingly global communication in terms of their content if the targets of media messages are not also the focus of study. This book ranges across a wide literature, taking both a chronological as well as thematic approach, in order to explore the ways in which the audience, as an analytical concept has changed, as well as examining the relationships which audiences have with texts and the ways in which they exert their power as consumers.; We also look at the political economy of audiences and the ways in which they are 'delivered' to advertisers, as well as attending to the ratings war being waged by broadcasters and the development of narrowcasting and niche audiences. Finally, the book looks ahead to the future of audience research, suggesting that new genres such as 'reality TV' and new ICTs such as the Internet, are already revolutionising the way in which research with audiences is taking place in the 21st century, not least because of the level of interactivity enabled by new media. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780335227631 0335227635 9780335206926 0335206921 9780335206919 0335206913 1280947810 9781280947810 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |