Chinese Boxes: Reality TV and Audience Participation

ISBN-13: 9783659629242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str.

Huang Kuo

Opis

Convergent media technologies have set up a media platform that supports interactive, participatory mediated communities. The world-wide popularity of reality TV shows is indicative of the spread of these cultural values and exemplifies the era of participating audiences (参众). This book investigates audience participation in two Chinese reality TV programmes, identifying audience participation as a form of informal role enactment. This is the first research conducted in China that maps audience members by calling on them to be self-reflective. With its extension of a Chinese audience studies approach, and its valuing of audience members voices, this book will be useful to scholars, students, as well as Chinese television production planners in designing environments that can assuage the growing Chinese appetite for participation in programmes. This book is highly recommended by Professor Naren Chitty A.M from Macquarie University, Sydney and Professor Daya Thussu from University of Westminster, London.

O autorze

Associate Professor at English Service of China Radio International. She has a Ph.D from Macquarie University, Australia, and MA from University of Westminster, UK. Her research focuses on international communication, audience studies and new media. She authored the book Multimedia Technology: How It Changes Classroom and Communication.