Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: What changes have taken place to the ways in which the audience is perceived? How have audiences become fragmented in the search for ratings? What next for audience research in the 21st century? The study of ‘audience’ is a central concept in both media and cultural studies...read more

Product Description: Este libro proporciona una revisión crítica de dos décadas de estudios sobre las audiencias televisivas. Con el desarrollo de los métodos de investigación etnográfica, calificada por los expertos como la más interesante etapa de las indagaciones sobre las audiencias, los investigadores se centraron por primera vez en los gr upos de espectadores que ven habitualmente la televisión, combinando entrevistas y observación participante con análisis textuales de ciertos programas...read more

Product Description: Studying Audiences: The Shock of the Real provides a critical overview of cultural studies research into the television audience. With the development of ethnographic research methods, hailed by Stuart Hall as `a new and exciting phase' in audience research, researchers turned their critical attention to groups of `ordinary people' watching television, combining interviews and participant observation with textual analysis of television programmes...read more

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