The Mass Audience: Rediscovering the Dominant ModelRoutledge, 2013 M11 5 - 174 páginas In the early 20th century, a new and distinctive concept of the audience rose to prominence. The audience was seen as a mass -- a large collection of people mostly unknown to one another -- that was unified through exposure to media. This construct offered a pragmatic way to map audiences that was relevant to industry, government, and social theorists. In a relatively short period of time, it became the dominant model for studying the audience. Today, it is so pervasive that most people simply take it for granted. Recently, media scholars have reopened inquiry into the meaning of "audience." They question the utility of the mass audience concept, characterizing it as insensitive to differences among audience members inescapably bound up with discredited notions of mass society, or serving only a narrow set of industrial interests. The authors of this volume find that these assertions are often false and unwarranted either by the historical record or by contemporary industry practice. Instead, they argue for a rediscovery of the dominant model by summarizing and critiquing the very considerable body of literature on audience behavior, and by demonstrating different ways of analyzing mass audiences. Further, they provide a framework for understanding the future of the audience in the new media environment, and suggest how the concept of mass audience can illuminate research on media effects, cultural studies, and media policy. |
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... Media 2 Statistical Thinking 4 The Mass Audience Concept Takes Hold 5 Audience Measurement 5 The Mass in Social Theory 6 The Lazarsfeld Tradition 7 Criticisms of the Mass Audience Concept 9 The Undifferentiated Mass 10 The Social ...
... Media 2 Statistical Thinking 4 The Mass Audience Concept Takes Hold 5 Audience Measurement 5 The Mass in Social Theory 6 The Lazarsfeld Tradition 7 Criticisms of the Mass Audience Concept 9 The Undifferentiated Mass 10 The Social ...
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... Media Theory 115 Media Effects 116 Down With the Passive Mass 116 Many Out of One 117 The Presumed Audience 118 Cultural Studies 120 Audience Differentiation 121 Flow Texts 124 Media Policy 125 The Commodity Model 127 The Effects Model ...
... Media Theory 115 Media Effects 116 Down With the Passive Mass 116 Many Out of One 117 The Presumed Audience 118 Cultural Studies 120 Audience Differentiation 121 Flow Texts 124 Media Policy 125 The Commodity Model 127 The Effects Model ...
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... Theory and Practice (1991). He has published many studies of mass audience behavior, communications policy, and the impact of new media. Among these are articles with Ting-Yu Wang and Gregory Newton, whose work appears in chapters 5 and ...
... Theory and Practice (1991). He has published many studies of mass audience behavior, communications policy, and the impact of new media. Among these are articles with Ting-Yu Wang and Gregory Newton, whose work appears in chapters 5 and ...
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Rediscovering the Dominant Model James Webster, Patricia F. Phalen. Preface. Audience theory ... media in the lives of audience members. They have found fault with the ... theory and practice. Chapter 1 addresses some of the questions ...
Rediscovering the Dominant Model James Webster, Patricia F. Phalen. Preface. Audience theory ... media in the lives of audience members. They have found fault with the ... theory and practice. Chapter 1 addresses some of the questions ...
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... media. We also conclude that although the idea of mass audience does serve ... theory in marketing, neoclassical economics, and social psychology. This ... media sell audiences. This idea has been a central tenet of media economics for ...
... media. We also conclude that although the idea of mass audience does serve ... theory in marketing, neoclassical economics, and social psychology. This ... media sell audiences. This idea has been a central tenet of media economics for ...
Contenido
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2 Mass Audience Behavior | 23 |
3 The Audience Commodity | 48 |
4 Inheritance Effects | 67 |
5 Repeat Viewing | 79 |
6 Television News Audiences | 91 |
7 The New Media Environment | 99 |
8 The Mass Audience in Media Theory | 115 |
References | 135 |
Author Index | 151 |
Subject Index | 155 |
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The Mass Audience: Rediscovering the Dominant Model James Webster,Patricia F. Phalen Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
The Mass Audience: Rediscovering the Dominant Model James G. Webster,Patricia F. Phalen Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
The Mass Audience: Rediscovering the Dominant Model James G. Webster,Patricia F. Phalen Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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