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Edward Arnold · First published 1998

Approaches to Audiences: A Reader

About this book

A teaching anthology of audience-research theory and method, bringing together foundational essays and contemporary critiques of how media audiences have been studied. Includes David Gauntlett's widely-cited chapter 'On the continuing problems of media effects research' — a standard reference point in debates about copycat-suicide contagion, the Werther and Papageno effects, and the limits of the media-effects model in cultural studies. Edited by Roger Dickinson, Ramaswami Harindranath and Olga Linné.

Scope

  • audience research theory & method
  • reception studies
  • the media-effects tradition and its critics
  • ethnographic and cross-cultural approaches to audiences

Edition history

First published
1998
Imprint
Edward Arnold

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