[ecrea] New book: Media Experiences

New book out - Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television

Published by Routledge: 
https://www.routledge.com/Media-Experiences-Engaging-with-Drama-and-Reality-Television/Hill/p/book/9780415625364

in hardback, paperback and as an Ebook.


/Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television/ travels 
across people and popular culture, exploring the pathways to engagement 
and the various ways in which we shape and are shaped by the media 
landscapes in which we move. This exploration includes the voices and 
bodies, sights and sounds of audiences as they experience entertainment 
through television drama, reality TV, at live events, and within digital 
television itself as actors, participants and producers. It is about the 
people who create the drama, live events and reality entertainment that 
we experience. This book traverses the relationships between producers 
and audiences in shared places of a media imagination.

Annette Hill’s research draws on interviews and observations with over 
500 producers and audience members to explore cultures of viewing across 
different genres, such as Nordic noir crime drama /The Bridge/, cult 
conspiracy thriller /Utopia/, and reality television audiences and 
participants in global formats /MasterChef/ and /Got to Dance/. The 
research highlights how trends such as multi-screening, catch up 
viewing, amateur media and piracy work alongside counter-trends in retro 
television viewing where people relish the social ritual of watching 
live television, or create a social media blackout for immersive viewing.

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/Media Experiences/ bridges the divide between industry and academia, 
highlighting how producers and audiences co-create, shape and limit 
experiences within emerging mediascapes.


Contents: Chapter One: Pathways to Engagement; Chapter Two: An Analytic 
Dialogue; Chapter Three: Roaming Audiences: /The Bridge; /Chapter Four: 
Spectrum of Engagement: /Got to Dance; /Chapter Five: The Cool Heart of 
Nordic Noir; Chapter Six: Illegal Audiences: /Utopia; /Chapter Seven: 
Embedded Engagement: Reality Talent Shows; Chapter Eight: Authentic 
Reality TV: The Case of /MasterChef; /Chapter Nine: Warm Up Acts; 
Chapter Ten: Audiences as Pathfinders; /Appendices/

*Reviews*

Hill’s concept of a "Roaming Audience" navigates the reader through the 
ever-growing spectrum of genres, platforms and viewing environments, and 
ultimately brings a greater understanding to that eternal question that 
preoccupies the media industry, as to what makes audiences passionately 
engage with great TV content.

*Doug Wood*, EndemolShine

This is a book that will change the way you think about television 
audiences. In /Media Experiences/, Annette Hill offers a vivid and 
original account of audience agency in the internet age, focusing on 
everyday "push-pull" engagements between viewers, producers, and platforms.

*Ramon Lobato*, RMIT University, Australia

Annette Hill’s deep love for television, its makers and audiences make 
/Media Experiences/ a thoroughly enjoyable read. Offering fresh concepts 
such as roaming audiences, emotional truth and life politics, this book 
provides insight in audience and production practices and how we engage 
with television. It easily proves that television in the digital age is 
the most exciting medium.

*Joke Hermes*, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

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Annette Hill* is Professor in Media and Communication at Lund 
University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at King's College London, UK. 
Her research focuses on audiences and popular culture, with interests in 
media engagement, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures 
of viewing. She is the author of eight books, including /Reality TV: Key 
Ideas/ (2015).


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