The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences
Annette Hill editor Peter Lunt editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:27th Sep '24
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The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences captures the ways in which audiences and audience researchers are adapting to emerging social, cultural, market, technical and environmental conditions.
Bringing together 40 original essays, this anthology explores how our constantly changing encounters with media are complex, contradictory and increasingly commercialized in the modern world. Each specially commissioned chapter by both early-career and experienced international scholars surveys new conceptualizations and constitutions of audiences, and assesses key issues, themes and developments within the field. As such, this companion cements itself as an indispensable guide for students and researchers who seek a comprehensive overview and source of inspiration for a diverse range of topics in media audiences.
The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences is an accessible, landmark tool which enhances our understanding of how media is utilized through advanced empirical research and methodological enquiry. It is a must-read for media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, humanities and social science scholars and students.
"A phenomenal contribution. It not only offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the field but also shows how it is being revitalised by engagements with technological, social, geopolitical and cultural shifts. Based on the ideas presented here, audience studies represents an exciting and important set of questions, methods, and critical orientations from which to explore a rapidly changing and ever more media-saturated world."
- Rosalind Gill, Goldsmiths, University of London
"No book can promise conclusions in a field that is ever expanding but it is possible, as in this companion, to offer an updated, state-of-the-art collection of research that explores various disciplinary, thematic, and regional approaches to media audiences. The future of audiences’ research is here."
- José Luis Fernández, Consulting professor and researcher on mediatizations, University of Buenos Aires
ISBN: 9781032214665
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
582 pages