Audience Transformations
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.
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 Schrder 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.
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This publication is supported by COST.
COSTthe acronym for European Cooperation in Science and Technology is the oldest and widest European intergovernmental network for cooperation in research. Established by the Ministerial Conference in November 1971, COST is presently used by the scientific communities of 36 European countries to cooperate in common research projects supported by national funds.
The COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies (20102014) is coordinating research efforts into the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of European societies. A range of interconnected but distinct topics concerning audiences are being developed by four Working Groups: (1) New media genres, media literacy and trust in the media; (2) Audience interactivity and participation; (3) The role of media and ICT use for evolving social relationships; and (4) Audience transformations and social integration.
COST is supported by the EU RTD Framework programme
ESF provides the COST Office through an EC contract
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Audience Transformations
Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
Edited by Nico Carpentier,
Kim Christian Schrder and
Lawrie Hallett
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Audience transformations : shifting audience positions in late modernity /
edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrder, and Lawrie Hallett.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Mass mediaAudiences. I. Carpentier, Nico editor of compilation. II. Schrder, Kim, editor of compilation. III. Hallett, Lawrie, 1961editor of compilation.
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Contents
Introduction
NICO CARPENTIER, KIM CHRISTIAN SCHRDER AND LAWRIE HALLETT
PART I
Using the Media
JAKOB BJUR, KIM CHRISTIAN SCHRDER, UWE HASEBRINK, CDRIC COURTOIS, HANNA ADONI AND HILLEL NOSSEK
RANJANA DAS, JELENA KLEUT AND GRAN BOLIN
INGRID PAUS-HASEBRINK, JASMIN KULTERER, DAVID MAHEL AND VRA KONTRKOV
PART II
Unpacking the Audience's Complex Structures (Generations, Minorities and Networks)
NICOLETTA VITTADINI, ANDRA SIIBAK, IRENA REIFOV AND HELENA BILANDZIC
MARTA COLA, KAARINA NIKUNEN, ALEXANDER DHOEST AND GAVAN TITLEY