Authors: John Hay, John Hay (Editor), Ellen Wartella
ISBN-13: 9780813322858, ISBN-10: 0813322855
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: June 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication.
"This book offers a major reconceptualization of the term audience,” one which involves a landscape, including the landscape of a given audiencesituated and territorializing features of any way of se"
The authors look at the remote control device and its impact on television viewers and the television industry, drawing on academic and industry research in measuring and classifying remote control activity. They discuss the effects of the remote on television programming and advertising, and examine studies on motivations for and gender differences in remote use. Of interest to those in television programming, advertising, and audience research. Can also be used in courses on media theory and media management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Introduction | 1 | |
Viewers Work | 9 | |
Combinations, Comparisons, and Confrontations: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Audience Research | 23 | |
Audience Research: Antinomies, Intersections, and the Prospect of Comprehensive Theory | 53 | |
After Convergence: Constituents of a Social Semiotics of Mass Media Reception | 63 | |
The Pragmatics of Audience in Research and Theory | 75 | |
Recasting the Audience in the New Television Marketplace? | 97 | |
Towards a Qualitative Methodology of Audience Study: Using Ethnography to Study the Popular Culture Audience | 113 | |
Notes on Children as a Television Audience | 131 | |
Figuring Audiences and Readers | 145 | |
Marginal Texts, Marginal Audiences | 161 | |
Notes on the Struggle to Define Involvement in Television Viewing | 177 | |
On Not Finding Media Effects: Conceptual Problems in the Notion of an "Active" Audience (with a Reply to Elihu Katz) | 187 | |
The Politics of Producing Audiences | 209 | |
Power Viewing: A Glance at Pervasion in the Postmodern Perplex | 221 | |
The Hegemony of "Specificity" and the Impasse in Audience Research: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Ethnography | 235 | |
Ethnography and Radical Contextualism in Audience Studies | 247 | |
Hemispheres of Scholarship: Psychological and Other Approaches to Studying Media Audiences | 265 | |
From Audiences to Consumers: The Household and the Consumption of Communication and Information Technologies | 281 | |
Audiencing Violence: Watching Homeless Men Watch Die Hard | 297 | |
The Geography of Television: Ethnography, Communications, and Community | 317 | |
Satellite Dishes and the Landscapes of Taste | 343 | |
Afterword: The Place of the Audience: Beyond Audience Studies | 359 | |
About the Book and Editors | 379 | |
Index | 381 |