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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783325403321

Titolo

Audience and publics [[electronic resource] ] : when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere / / edited by Sonia Livingstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Portland, OR, : Intellect Books, 2005

ISBN

1-280-47708-3

9786610477081

1-84150-923-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Changing media--changing Europe series ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

LivingstoneSonia

Disciplina

302.23

302.23094

Soggetti

Mass media - Europe

Mass media - Social aspects

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

Foreword; Contents; Author Biographies; Sonia Livingstone - Introduction; Sonia Livingstone - Chapter 1: On the relation between audiences and publics1; Daniel Dayan - Chapter 2: Mothers, midwives and abortionists: genealogy, obstetrics, audiences & publics; Dominique Mehl - Chapter 3: The public on the television screen: towards a public sphere of exhibition; Mirca Madianou Chapter 4: The elusive public of television news; Ulrike Hanna Meinhof - Chapter 5: Initiating a public: Malagasy music and live audiences in differentiated cultural contexts

Roberta Pearson and Máire Messenger Davies - Chapter 6: Class acts? Public and private values and the cultural habits of theatre-goersSonia Livingstone - Chapter 7: In defence of privacy: mediating the public/private boundary at home; Kirsten Drotner Chapter 8: Media on the move: personalised media and the transformation of publicness; Ulrike Hanna Meinhof - Appendix: Audiences and publics: comparing semantic fields across different languages; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In today's thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people. Yet social science



traditionally treats them quite differently. Indeed, it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses, audiences are denigrated as trivial, passive, individualised, while publics are valued as active, critically engaged and politically significant.