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Audiences and Publics

When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere

Sonia Livingstone editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Intellect

Published:1st Aug '05

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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.

ISBN: 9781841501291

Dimensions: 242mm x 172mm x 13mm

Weight: 404g

200 pages