Researching Audiences: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media Audience Analysis (Arnold Publication) - Softcover

Catherine Murray; Kim Schroder; Kirsten Drotner; Steve Kline

 
9780340762745: Researching Audiences: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media Audience Analysis (Arnold Publication)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0340762748 ISBN 13: 9780340762745
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003

Synopsis

How do young audiences play with the cultural spectacle offered by reality shows like Big Brother? How does interactive media influence learning the process in educational and everyday settings? How can corporate communicators address their ethical commitment more effectively to the general public? And is there a link between television viewing and violent behaviour?



Researching Audiences is a practical hands-on guide to the main types of empirical fieldwork that have established themselves in academic, policy and commercial research. It will help you explore what audience members do with the media, how they make sense of the media, and how the media may influence social affairs from the micro to the macro level.



The book introduces and discusses four complementary key approaches to empirical research: Media ethnography, reception research, survey research, and experimental research.



Each section presents

·a full-scale presentation of a best-practice example of the approach

·the key concepts used by its practitioners and an overview of its scholarly history

·a comprehensive toolbox that equips students with the methodological prerequisites needed in order to embark on the kind of fieldwork often required in practice-oriented audience courses

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About the Author

Kim SchrÞder is Professor at the Centre for User-Oriented Communication Research, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Kirsten Drotner is Professor at the Centre for Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark.
Stephen Kline is Professor at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.
Catherine Murray is Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0340762748
ISBN 13 
9780340762745
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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