Media Audiences and Identity
Media Audiences and Identity

Author: S. Bailey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-09-08

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0230501117

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Using a unique combination of cultural studies research, neo-pragmatist philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory, the author sheds light on the formation of a social identity and the important role that mass media play in this process. Case studies covering a range of media and communities provide a model for developing a truly explanatory as well as descriptive account of self-media interaction that bridges the two opposing sides of the media audience debate and provides a significant new dimension to notions of 'passive' and 'active' media audiences.

The Handbook of Media Audiences
The Handbook of Media Audiences

Author: Virginia Nightingale

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 111872139X

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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media. Details the study of audiences and how it is changing in relation to digital media Recognizes and appreciates valuable traditional approaches and identifies how they can be applied to, and evolve with, the changing media world Offers diverse perspectives from which being an audience, theorizing audiences, researching audiences, and doing audience research are approached today Argues that the field works best by identifying particular 'audience problems' and applying the best theories and research methods available to solving them Includes contributions from some of the most outstanding international scholars in the field

The Audience in Everyday Life
The Audience in Everyday Life

Author: S. Elizabeth Bird

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1135379874

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The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone--their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. Bird provides a host of useful tools and methods for scholars and students interested in the ways media is consumed in everyday life.

Creative Explorations
Creative Explorations

Author: David Gauntlett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134155093

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Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett here explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience.

Mediating the Nation
Mediating the Nation

Author: Mirca Madianou

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1844720292

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Television is an indispensable part of the fabric of modern life and this book investigates a facet of this process: its impact on the ways that we experience the political entity of the nation and our national and transnational identities.

We the Media
We the Media

Author: Dan Gillmor

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2006-01-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0596102275

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Looks at the emerging phenomenon of online journalism, including Weblogs, Internet chat groups, and email, and how anyone can produce news.

Media Audiences
Media Audiences

Author: Sue Turnbull

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1350306398

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The relationship between the media and its audiences has always been a topic of research and debate. Media Audiences provides a comprehensive and succinct overview of the field of audience studies from the time of the printing press to an era characterized by online digital connectivity. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book offers a wealth of personal insight into the experience of undertaking audience research in order to illustrate the key methodological issues and challenges in the field. Addressing such topics as technologies, content and the people who are the subjects of audience research, the author challenges readers to think about the value of such research for themselves and for society at large. Comprehensive yet concise, this is essential reading for students of Media with an interest in audience studies.

Rethinking the Media Audience
Rethinking the Media Audience

Author: Pertti Alasuutari

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-08-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1849206732

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Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.

Media Audiences
Media Audiences

Author: Kristyn Gorton

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0748630368

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An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in television texts; audience reception models; fan cultures; 'quality' television; television aesthetics; reality television; individualism and its links to television consumption.The book is divided into two sections: the first covers theoretical work on the audience, fan cultures, global television, theorising emotion and affect in feminist theory and film and television studies. The second half offers a series of case studies on television programmes such as Wife Swap, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under in order to explore how emotion is fashioned, constructed and valued in televisual texts. The final chapter features original material from interviews with industry professionals in the UK and Irish soap industries along with advice for students on how to conduct their own small-scale ethnographic projects.

Dislike-Minded
Dislike-Minded

Author: Jonathan Gray

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1479809268

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Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation? Dislike-Minded draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship. The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre Bourdieu’s famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery. Instead, Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and other media, and why this dislike matters. As we watch and listen through gritted teeth, Dislike-Minded listens to what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience research within communication, media, and cultural studies.