[ecrea] new book: Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity

Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett
Published July 28th 2013 by Routledge
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415827362/

Summary

The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century 
there are novel configurations of user practices and technological 
capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media 
organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and 
how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these 
transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, 
economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of 
technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the 
media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated 
within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and 
careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational 
practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.

Content

Introduction 1. Audience/society transformations Nico Carpentier, Kim 
Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett Part I: Using the media 2. Cross-media use - 
Unfolding complexities in contemporary audiencehood Jakob Bjur, Kim 
Schrøder, Uwe Hasebrink, Cédric Courtois, Hanna Adoni and Hillel Nossek 
3. New genres - new roles for the audience? An overview of recent 
research Ranjana Das, Jelena Kleut and Göran Bolin 4. On the role of 
media in socially demanding situations Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink, Jasmin 
Kulterer, David Šmahel and Vera Kontríková Part II: Unpacking the 
audience's complex structures (generations, minorities and networks) 5. 
Generations and media: The social construction of generational identity 
and differences Nicoletta Vittadini, Andra Siibak, Irena Carpentier 
Reifová and Helena Bilandzic 6. ‘Lost in mainstreaming’? Ethnic minority 
audiences for public and private broadcasting Marta Cola, Kaarina 
Nikunen, Alexander Dhoest and Gavan Titley 7. Networks of belonging: 
Interaction, participation and consumption of mediatised content Paula 
Cordeiro, Manuel Damásio, Guy Starkey, Inês Botelho, Patrícia Dias, 
Carla Ganito, Catia Ferreira and Sara Henriques Part III: Participation 
in and through the media 8. The democratic (media) revolution: A 
parallel genealogy of political and media participation Nico Carpentier, 
Peter Dahlgren and Francesca Pasquali 9. The mediation of civic 
participation: Diverse forms of political agency in a multimedia age 
Peter Lunt, Anne Kaun, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Birgit Stark and 
Liesbet Van Zoonen 10. New perspectives on audience activity: 
'prosumption' and media activism as audience practices Brian O’Neill, J. 
Ignacio Gallego, Frauke Zeller 11. The role of the media industry when 
participation is a product José M. Noguera, Mikko Villi, Nora Nyiro, 
Emiliana de Blasio and Mélanie Bourdaa Part IV: Prerequisites of 
participation: access, literacies and trust 12. Transforming digital 
divides in different national contexts Sascha Trültzsch, Ragne 
Kõuts-Klemm, Piermarco Aroldi 13. Situating media literacy in the 
changing media environment: critical insights from European research on 
audiences Sonia Livingstone, Christine W. Wijnen, Tao Papaioannou, 
Conceição Costa and María del Mar Grandío 14. What does it mean to trust 
the media? Tereza Pavlícková, Lars Nyre and Jelena Jurišic.

About the editors:

Nico Carpentier is Associate Professor at the Communication Studies 
Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Lecturer at 
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is also an executive 
board member of the International Association for Media and 
Communication Research (IAMCR).
Kim Christian Schrøder is Professor of Communication in the Department 
of Communication, Business and Information Technologies at Roskilde 
University, Denmark.
Lawrie Hallett is Senior Lecturer in Radio at the University of 
Bedfordshire, UK.

Partnerships

This book is part of the Routledge Studies in European Communication 
Research and Education (http://www.routledge.com/books/series/ECREA/), 
and published in partnership with the Cost Actions Transforming 
Audiences, Transforming Societies 
(http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/).


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