1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450143403321

Autore

Ang Ien.

Titolo

Desperately seeking the audience / / Ien Ang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

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

Electronic books.

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.

UNISA996386817303316

Autore

Fale Thomas <fl. 1604.>

Titolo

Horologiographia, The art of dialling [[electronic resource] ] : teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kindes of dials vpon any plain plat howsoever placed : with the drawing of the twelve signes and houres unequall in them all : whereunto is annexed the making and use of other dials and instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne ... / / by Thomas Fale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Felix Kingstone ..., 1652

Descrizione fisica

[8], 90 [i.e. 60] folded leaves, [30] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

HondiusJodocus <1563-1612.>

Soggetti

Sundials

Dialing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Diagrams by Jodocus Hondius. Cf. p. [8] at beginning.

Advertisement on p. [8].

Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

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