TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillespie,Marie
TI  - Media audiences
SN  - 0335218822 (pbk.): 
AV  - P96.A83 M425 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Maidenhead, England, New York, NY
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Audiences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction/ Marie Gillespie -- Ch 1. Media audiences, interpreters and users/ Sonia Livingstone -- Ch 2. The media sensorium: cultural technologies, the senses and society/ Tony Bennett  -- Ch 3. Media publics, culture and democracy/ David Herbert -- Ch 5. The extended audience: scanning the horizon/ Nick Couldry -- Conclusion/ Marie Gillespie
N2  - "This book offers an engaging and accessible introduction to key debates in audience studies, drawing on a range of historical, contemporary and cross-cultural case studies." "Case studies range from the sensational experiences of early twentieth-century film audiences to the practices of reality TV viewers, from the devotional viewing of Hindu epics in India to the politics of interpreting news among families in Israel."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -