The social use of media : cultural and social scientiific perspectives on audience research
This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol,UK :
Intellect ,
c2012
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| Series: | European communication research and education association (ECREA)
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Mode of action perspective to engagements with social media : articulating activities on the public platforms of Wikipedia and YouTube
- 2. At the crossroads of hermeneutic philosophy and reception studies : understanding patterns of cross-media consumption
- 3. Cultivated performances : what cultivation analysis says about media, binge drinking and gender
- 4. Motivations to participate in an online violent gaming community : use and gratifications in an ethnographic approach
- 5. Imagined communities of television viewers: reception research on national and ethnic minority audiences
- 6. Exploring media ethnography: pop songs, text messages and lessons in a British school
- 7. Film audiences in perspective: the social practices of cinema-going
- 8. Talking recipients : an integrative model of socio-emotional meta-appraisal (SEMA) in conversations about media content
- 9. Parasocial relationships : current directions in theory and method
- 10. From semiotic resistance to civic agency : viewing citizenship through the lens of reception research 1973-2010
- 11. For and against participation : a hermeneutical approach to participation in the media
- 12. Using the domestication approach for the analysis of diffusion and participation processes of new media
- 13. Creating, sharing, interacting : fandom in the age of digital convergence and globalized television