Investigating audiences
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Investigating audiences
Sage Publications, 2007
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [167]-182
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Picking up on some of the themes developed in his critically acclaimed book Understanding Audiences (SAGE, 2000), this new book on audience research focuses on qualitative methods and will draw upon students' own media experience.
The book is divided into chapters that deal with audience research in terms of concepts and topics. Regarding concepts, Investigating Audiences is firmly grounded within interpretive approaches to studying viewers, readers and listeners.
Further to this, the book looks at the different ways in which media influence can be accessed and the attendant methodological consequences. These issues are then applied to a survey of recent scholarship on a variety of topics such as violence, pornography, video gaming, and children and advertising.
Investigating Audiences will be very useful for undergraduates in media studies/mass communications courses containing qualitative research components and dealing with cultural studies themes and approaches to audience studies.
Table of Contents
Can I Write 'I' in an Essay
News and Public Information
Media, Pleasure and Identity
The Meaning of the Meaningless
Fans, Power and Communication
Objectionable Content
Sex, Violence and Audiences
Reality, Media and Celebrity
Young People, Technology and Cultural Citizenship
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