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Informationen zum Autor Virginia Nightingale held the position of Associate Professor with the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney until retiring in 2010. Now an independent scholar, her publications include Media and Audiences: New Perspectives (with Karen Ross, 2003) and Critical Perspectives: Media and Audiences (with Karen Ross, 2003), and New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence (ed. with Tim Dwyer, 2007). Klappentext Digital media have dramatically increased the nature and diversity of the ways people can access media content, and the assumption that audiences occupy a position of 'reception' is giving way to an understanding of audiences as media-active. As this handbook demonstrates, the study of audiences is shifting and changing accordingly. Working from the assumption that a better understanding will evolve if future researchers have a solid understanding of the complexity of 'audience' and 'audiences' and of existing research traditions, the contributors to this handbook offer a wealth of research wisdom and expertise, depth of theoretical engagement with the field, and creativity in the imagination of research interventions. They insist that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' way of doing audience research, but that the field works best by identifying particular 'audience problems' and applying the best theories and research methods to solving them. Placing the emphasis on technologies, theories, research methods and research pragmatics, this handbook brings together leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies. Zusammenfassung As broadcasting gives way to the digital media age, the study of audiences faces unprecedented challenges. Digital media have dramatically increased the nature and the diversity in how people can position themselves in relation to media content, and the study of audiences is shifting and changing accordingly. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor's Preface xiv Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Virginia Nightingale Part I Being Audiences 17 1 Readers as Audiences 19 Wendy Griswold, Elizabeth Lenaghan, and Michelle Naffziger 2 Listening for Listeners: The Work of Arranging How Listening Will Occur in Cultures of Recorded Sound 41 Jackie Cook 3 Viewing 62 Shawn Shimpach 4 Search and Social Media 86 Virginia Nightingale 5 Spreadable Media: How Audiences Create Value and Meaning in a Networked Economy 109 Joshua Green and Henry Jenkins 6 Going Mobile 128 Gerard Goggin Part II Theorizing Audiences 147 7 Audiences and Publics, Media and Public Spheres 149 Richard Butsch 8 The Implied Audience of Communications Policy Making: Regulating Media in the Interests of Citizens and Consumers 169 Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt 9 New Configurations of the Audience? The Challenges of User-Generated Content for Audience Theory and Media Participation 190 Nico Carpentier 10 The Necessary Future of the Audience ... and How to Research It 213 Nick Couldry 11 Reception 230 Cornel Sandvoss 12 Affect Theory and Audience 251 Anna Gibbs Part III Researching Audiences 267 13 Toward a Branded Audience: On the Dialectic between Marketing and Consumer Agency 269 Adam Arvidsson 14 Ratings and Audience Measurement 286 Philip M. Napoli 15 Quantitative Audience Research: Embracing the Poor Relation 302 David Deacon and Emily Keightley 16 Media Effects in Context 320 Brian O'Neill 17 Cultivation Analysis and Media Violence 340 Andy Ruddock
