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This is an innovative overview of research on the social uses of media. It brings together competing research approaches. It is part of the ECREA series. It explores activity and interactivity, and media use as a social and cultural practice. It is a significant contribution to the development of interdisciplinary theories and approaches to audience and user studies. This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice, and participation in a cultural, political, and technological sense. This volume presents visions of current audience and reception studies and makes a significant contribution to the development of interdisciplinary approaches to audience and user studies. The book contains a concluding chapter by the internationally renowned author Sonia Livingstone who significantly contributed to the development of audience and user studies through gap-bridging theories and research methods.

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Author:   Helena Bilandzic ,  Geoffroy Patriarche ,  Paul J. Traudt
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781841505121

ISBN 10:   1841505129
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   17 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Helena Bilandzic is a professor of communication research at the University of Augsburg; her research interests include narrative experience and persuasion, cultivation, media use, and methodology. Geoffroy Patriarche is a professor at the Facultes universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels, his current research interests include mobile communications, mediated citizen participation, and audience theory.. Paul J. Traudt is a professor of media studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research and teaching interests include audience reception theory, research methods. global media. and video criticism.

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