Audiences and publics : when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere /
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Imprint: | Bristol, England ; Portland, Or. : Intellect, 2005. |
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Description: | 244 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Changing media--changing Europe series ; v. 2 Cultural studies Cultural studies (Bristol, England) |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5999900 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 244 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1841501298 |