Book Description
This is a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day.
Author : Richard Butsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2000-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521662532
This is a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day.
Author : Richard Butsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135043051
In today’s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, while powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance. 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. It will be particularly useful to those studying audiences and international media.
Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.
Author : Anthony M Nadler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252040146
The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production--and unleashed both crisis and opportunity on journalistic institutions. Anthony Nadler charts a paradigm shift, from market research's reach into the editorial suite in the 1970s through contemporary experiments in collaborative filtering and social news sites like Reddit and Digg. As Nadler shows, the transition was and is a rocky one. It also goes back much further than many experts suppose. Idealized visions of demand-driven news face obstacles with each iteration. Furthermore, the post-professional philosophy fails to recognize how organizations mobilize interest in news and public life. Nadler argues that this civic function of news organizations has been neglected in debates on the future of journalism. Only with a critical grasp of news outlets' role in stirring broad interest in democratic life, he says, might journalism's digital crisis push us toward building a more robust and democratic news media. Wide-ranging and original, Making the News Popular offers a critical examination of an important, and still evolving, media phenomenon.
Author : Lawrence Baum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 140082754X
What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in limited ways, in consequence of their legal and policy goals. In contrast, Baum argues that the influence of judges' audiences is pervasive. This influence derives from judges' interest in popularity and respect, a motivation central to most people. Judges care about the regard of audiences because they like that regard in itself, not just as a means to other ends. Judges and Their Audiences uses research in social psychology to make the case that audiences shape judges' choices in substantial ways. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship on judicial decision-making and an array of empirical evidence, the book then analyzes the potential and actual impact of several audiences, including the public, other branches of government, court colleagues, the legal profession, and judges' social peers. Engagingly written, this book provides a deeper understanding of key issues concerning judicial behavior on which scholars disagree, identifies aspects of judicial behavior that diverge from the assumptions of existing models, and shows how those models can be strengthened.
Author : Ryan C. Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107137144
An investigation of how US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences.
Author : Melvyn Stokes
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
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Author : Andy Ruddock
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2000-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1446239497
The history of audience research tells us that the relationship between the media and viewers, readers and listeners is complex and requires multiple methods of analysis. In Understanding Audiences, Andy Ruddock introduces students to the range of quantitative and qualitative methods and invites his readers to consider the merits of both. Understanding Audiences: demonstrates how - practically - to investigate media power; places audience research - from early mass communication models to cultural studies approaches - in their historical and epistemological context; explores the relationship between theory and method; concludes with a consideration of the long-running debate on media effects; includes exercises which invite readers to engage with the practical difficulties of conducting social research.
Author : Clint Smith
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938912667
Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness. Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward. - Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards - 2017 'One Book One New Orleans' Book Selection
Author : LuAnn Irwin
Publisher : Pfeiffer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2008-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787996611
The Essential Guide to Training Global Audiences is a groundbreaking book that offers a much-needed guide for anyone who must design and deliver excellent learning experiences for people from a culture other than their own. The book is filled with proven guidelines for multicultural training, solid techniques for training international adult learners, and advice for the preparation of culturally sensitive presentations. The book represents material from more than 65 contributors who have made presentations for some of the leading organizations worldwide.