1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777350603321

Autore

Ang Ien.

Titolo

Desperately seeking the audience / / Ien Ang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991

ISBN

1-134-94041-6

1-134-94042-4

1-280-47832-2

9786610478323

0-203-13334-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

302.2345

384.55/1

384.551

Soggetti

Europe

Mass media

Television viewers

Television viewers - United States

Television viewers - Europe

Journalism & Communications

Radio & TV Broadcasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Institutional knowledge: the need to control; 2 Audience-as-market and audience-as-public; 3 Television audience as taxonomic collective; 4 The limits of discursive control; 5 Commercial knowledge: measuring the audience; 6 In search of the audience commodity; 7 Streamlining 'television audience'; 8 The streamlined audience disrupted: impact of the new technologies; 9 The people meter 'solution'; 10 Revolt of the viewer? The elusive audience

11 Normative knowledge: the breakdown of the public service ideal12 Britain: the BBC and the loss of the disciplined audience; 13 Netherlands: VARA and the loss of the natural audience; 14 Repairing



the loss: the desire for audience information; Conclusions: Understanding television audiencehood; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910736987103321

Autore

Rudolph Gerd

Titolo

Manifolds, lie groups and hamiltonian systems / / Gerd Rudolph, Matthias Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-90982-0

94-007-5345-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (765 p.)

Collana

Theoretical and mathematical physics, , 1864-5879

Differential geometry and mathematical physics ; ; pt. I

Altri autori (Persone)

SchmidtMatthias

Disciplina

515.7

516.36

Soggetti

Geometry, Differential

Mathematical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Differentiable manifolds --  2 Vector bundles --  3 Vector fields --  4 Differential forms --  5 Lie groups --  6 Lie group actions --  7 Linear symplectic algebra --  8 Symplectic geometry --  9 Hamiltonian systems --  10 Symmetries -- 11 Integrability -- 12 Hamilton-Jacobi theory --  References.

Sommario/riassunto

Starting from an undergraduate level, this book systematically develops



the basics of • Calculus on manifolds, vector bundles, vector fields and differential forms, • Lie groups and Lie group actions, • Linear symplectic algebra and symplectic geometry, • Hamiltonian systems, symmetries and reduction, integrable systems and Hamilton-Jacobi theory. The topics listed under the first item are relevant for virtually all areas of mathematical physics. The second and third items constitute the link between abstract calculus and the theory of Hamiltonian systems. The last item provides an introduction to various aspects of this theory, including Morse families, the Maslov class and caustics. The book guides the reader from elementary differential geometry to advanced topics in the theory of Hamiltonian systems with the aim of making current research literature accessible. The style is that of a mathematical textbook,with full proofs given in the text or as exercises. The material is illustrated by numerous detailed examples, some of which are taken up several times for demonstrating how the methods evolve and interact.