Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

ISBN-13: 9780415837293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 212 str.

Richard Butsch; Sonia Livingstone

Opis

In today s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, and powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance.

In a concerted effort to grasp the construction of meanings and power across diverse cultural contexts and to provincialize the West, this ground-breaking collection offers original, empirical studies of discourses about audiences by bringing together a genuinely international range of work.

With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation and regulation in different yet overlapping ways according to specific socio-historical contexts.

Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book is a valuable and original contribution to media and communication studies that will be particularly useful to those studying audiences and international media.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: "Translating" Audiences, Provincializing the West Richard Butsch and Sonia Livingstone  2. Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece David Kawalko Roselli  3. When Curiosity Met Printing: Audiences and New Media in Early Modern History Christian Oggolder  4. Shoppers, Dupes and other Types: The Television Audience in Post-Soviet Russian Discourses Sudha Rajagopalan  5. Between Unruliness and Sociality: Discourses on Diasporic Cinema Audiences for Turkish and Indian Films Kevin Smets, Iris Vandevelde, Philippe Meers, Roel Vande Winkel, and Sofie Van Bauwel  6. Producing Loyal Citizens and Entertaining Volatile Subjects: Imagining Audience Agency in Colonial Rhodesia and Post-colonial Zimbabwe Wendy Willems  7. A Consuming Public: Movie Audiences in the Bengali Cultural Imaginary Manishita Dass  8. "The Mass Wants This!" How Politics, Religion and Media Industries Shape Discourses about Audiences in the Arab World Joe F. Khalil  9. Egyptian Audiences of Musalsalat in the Eye of the Beholder Aliaa Dawoud  10. Senior Audiences and the Revolutionary Subject in the People’s Republic of China Stephanie Hemelryk Donald  11. The Articulation of Audience in Chinese Communication Research Guiquan Xu  12. From Qunzhong to Guanzhong: The Evolving Conceptualization of Audience in Mainland China Jingsi Christina Wu  13. Active Citizenship: The Politics of Imagining Internet Audiences in Taiwan Fang-Chih Irene Yang and Ping Shaw

O autorze

Richard Butsch is Professor of Sociology and Film and Media Studies at Rider University, New Jersey, USA. He is author of The Making of American Audiences from Stage to Television, 1750 to 1990 and The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals, and editor of For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption and Media and Public Spheres. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Screen Culture: A Global History. Sonia Livingstone is a professor at the Department of Media and Communications, LSE. Her research examines children, young people and the internet; media and digital literacies; the mediated public sphere; audience reception, the public understanding of communications regulation. Her sixteen authored or edited books include Making Sense of Television (1998), Audiences and Publics (2005), The Handbook of New Media (2006), Media Consumption and Public Engagement (2010) and Media Regulation (2012).