Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice, and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. This book explores three general areas of current scholarly study of the social aspects of media use. First, the introduction of interactive and so-called social media has had repercussions for the definition of media use, reception and even our perception of media effects. Second, the recognition that media constitute social practice, which utilizes media for its own goals, has been highly influential in communication research. Third, media provide many opportunities for participation in cultural and political issues. Yet media also shape participation in certain – and sometimes constraining – ways.
Trade ReviewIt aptly covers the diversity in contemporary audience research, gathering contributions on various types of media practices, drawing upon multi-disciplinary frames and insights, both on the theoretical and empirical level. As such, a thought-provoking balance between new-fangled topics and historical reflections are united and adequately addressed. Hence, it is a recommended reading for all of us who intend to keep a finger on the pulse of audience research. -- Cédric Courtois, International Journal of Digital Television
An exemplary study of the approach to audience studies.
-- Ana Jorge, MedieKultur
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Helena Bilandzic, Geoff Roy Patriarche and Paul J. Traudt
PART I: AUDIENCE ACTIVITY AND INTERACTIVITY Chapter 1: Mode of Action Perspective to Engagements with Social Media: Articulating Activities on the Public Platforms of Wikipedia and YouTube – Seija Ridell Chapter 2: At the Crossroads of Hermeneutic Philosophy and Reception Studies: Understanding Patterns of Cross-Media Consumption – Tereza Pavlícková Chapter 3: Cultivated Performances: What Cultivation Analysis Says about Media, Binge Drinking and Gender – Andy Ruddock Chapter 4: Motivations to Participate in an Online Violent Gaming Community: Uses and Gratifi cations in an Ethnographic Approach – María T. Soto-Sanfiel
PART II: MEDIA USE AS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PRACTICE Chapter 5: Imagined Communities of Television Viewers: Reception Research on National and Ethnic Minority Audiences – Alexander Dhoest Chapter 6: Exploring Media Ethnography: Pop Songs, Text Messages and Lessons in a British School – Caroline Dover Chapter 7: Film Audiences in Perspective: The Social Practices of Cinema-Going – Philippe Meers and Daniel Biltereyst Chapter 8: Talking Recipients: An Integrative Model of Socio-Emotional Meta-Appraisal (SEMA) in Conversations about Media Content – Katrin Döveling and Denise Sommer Chapter 9: Parasocial Relationships: Current Directions in Theory and Method – David Giles
PART III: CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PARTICIPATION Chapter 10: From Semiotic Resistance to Civic Agency: Viewing Citizenship through the Lens of Reception Research 1973–2010 – Kim Christian Schrøder Chapter 11: For and against Participation: A Hermeneutical Approach to Participation in the Media – Lars Nyre and Brian O’Neill Chapter 12: Using the Domestication Approach for the Analysis of Diff usion and Participation Processes of New Media – Corinna Peil and Jutta Röser Chapter 13: Creating, Sharing, Interacting: Fandom in the Age of Digital Convergence and Globalized Television – Mélanie Bourdaa and Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier Conclusion: Exciting Moments in Audience Research: Past, Present and Future – Sonia Livingstone
