Autore |
Balnaves Mark
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (289 p.)
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Disciplina |
302.23
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Altri autori (Persone) |
O'ReganTom
GoldsmithBen
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Soggetto topico |
Mass media - Ratings and rankings
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ISBN |
1-283-47914-1
9786613479143
1-84966-460-9
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Formato |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Why the Ratings Are Important; Introduction; The Single Number; Summary; 2. The Convention; 'The Crossleys' - Archibald Crossley; Arthur C. Nielsen (and the 'Black Box'); Bill McNair and George Anderson; New Forms of Knowledge about Audiences; Theorizing the Convention; Summary; 3. The Panel and the Survey; The Ratings Intellectuals; Lazarsfeld; The Very Idea of Measurement; Single Source: 'The Holy Grail'; Summary; 4. The Audit; Taming Error; Invisible Audiences; The BBC: Robert Silvey's Thermometer and Barometer
Summary5. The Technologies of Counting; The Diffusion of Ratings Technology; Proliferation of Channels and Measurement; Neuroscience, Neuromarketing and New Technologies of Measurement; Timeshifting and Technologies of Counting; The Increasing Technical Complexity of Audience Measurement; Calls for Harmonization; Summary; 6. The Ratings Provider; The Official Truth; The Silent Revolution; Superior Technology': ATR-OzTAM and ACNielsen Controversy in Australia; Superior Technology': Nielsen versus Hooper, Nielsen versus Arbitron; Summary; 7. The Networks (and Other Media Providers)
TV EconomicsStandardization; Small Audiences and Set-top Boxes; United Kingdom; Summary; 8. Advertisers and Media Planners; The Dual Persona of the Advertiser; The Media Planner; Cost Efficiency and the Curve of Experience; The Competent User; Summary; 9. The Audience; The Modern Audience; The Average Household and the Representative Individual; Home Studies and the Public; Audience Consent; The Knowledge Aggregators; Summary; 10. The Critics; The Broader Context; The Bogart Persona; Objections to Ratings; Setting Limits to Statistics; Problems with Increases in Scale
Impersonal Secondary DataDeprofessionalization of Media Research; Summary; 11. The Future of Ratings; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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