Understanding Media Users - Tony Wilson

Understanding Media Users

From Theory to Practice

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5567-0 (ISBN)
46,95 inkl. MwSt
Understanding Media Users focuses on the blurred concept of the active audience at the core of media studies. Charting the complex terrain of screen reception theory and applied research, this new volume offers wide-ranging criticism of media effects.
Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice focuses on the blurred concept of the “active audience” at the core of media studies.

examines the relationship between media and audiences by one of the world’s leading media scholars
provides a history of media effects’ and an overview of the current analytical approaches that constitute media reception theory
charts some of the most important interfaces of media reception and interaction - TV, film, the Internet, advertising, journalism, and tourism studies
concludes with additional insights into the future of media reception in a global age

Tony Wilson is Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, at University Malaysia Sarawak, and Associate Research Fellow, Global Cities Institute, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction 1

1 A Passive Audience? Structuralist and Effects Studies 7

2 The Active Audience: Speaking Subjects 29

3 Perceiving is Believing: From Phenomenology to Media User Theory 46

4 Meanings Are Ours: Reader Response and Audience Studies 59

5 The Projecting Audience: From Cinema to Cellphone 74

6 A Phenomenology of Phone Use: Pervasive Play and the Ludification of Culture 94

7 Selling on Screen: From Media Hermeneutics to Marketing Communication 112

8 Buying Brandscapes: A Phenomenology of Perception and Purchase 130

9 Consumer-Citizens: Crossing Cultures in Cyberspace 146

Conclusion: Media User Theory: Going Beyond Accumulation of Audiences 173

References 176

Index 204

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.8.2008
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 230 mm
Gewicht 345 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4051-5567-1 / 1405155671
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-5567-0 / 9781405155670
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