Audiences and publics : when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere
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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9781841509235, 9781841501291, 184150923X, 1841501298
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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
Supported by the European Science Foundation
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