Description
Book Synopsis âœa simple yet excellent overview of the multilayered path of audience research, tracing its evolution over the last centuryââ 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
Table of Contents
Series editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction Audiences today
Audiences in historical perspective
Audience commodities and audience activism
Cause and effect: Theories in flux
The audience as citizen: Media, politics and democracy
Fan audiences: Identity, consumption and interactivity
New media, new audience, new research?
Glossary
References
Index.
