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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

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Author Biography: John Hay

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.

Book Synopsis

"This book offers a major reconceptualization of the term “audience,” one which involves a landscape, including the landscape of a given audience—situated and territorializing features of any way of se"

Booknews

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)

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Introduction1
Viewers Work9
Combinations, Comparisons, and Confrontations: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Audience Research23
Audience Research: Antinomies, Intersections, and the Prospect of Comprehensive Theory53
After Convergence: Constituents of a Social Semiotics of Mass Media Reception63
The Pragmatics of Audience in Research and Theory75
Recasting the Audience in the New Television Marketplace?97
Towards a Qualitative Methodology of Audience Study: Using Ethnography to Study the Popular Culture Audience113
Notes on Children as a Television Audience131
Figuring Audiences and Readers145
Marginal Texts, Marginal Audiences161
Notes on the Struggle to Define Involvement in Television Viewing177
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 Audiences209
Power Viewing: A Glance at Pervasion in the Postmodern Perplex221
The Hegemony of "Specificity" and the Impasse in Audience Research: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Ethnography235
Ethnography and Radical Contextualism in Audience Studies247
Hemispheres of Scholarship: Psychological and Other Approaches to Studying Media Audiences265
From Audiences to Consumers: The Household and the Consumption of Communication and Information Technologies281
Audiencing Violence: Watching Homeless Men Watch Die Hard297
The Geography of Television: Ethnography, Communications, and Community317
Satellite Dishes and the Landscapes of Taste343
Afterword: The Place of the Audience: Beyond Audience Studies359
About the Book and Editors379
Index381

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