Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination - Softcover

Abercrombie, Nicholas; Longhurst, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803989628 ISBN 13: 9780803989627

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Audiences are problematic and the study of audiences has represented a key site of activity in the social sciences and humanities. Offering a timely review of the past 50 years of theoretical and methodological debate Audiences

argues the case for a paradigmatic shift in audience research.

This shift, argue the authors, is necessitated by the emergence of the `diffused audience'. Audience experience can no longer be simply classified as `simple' or `mass', for in modern advanced capitalist societies, people are members of an audience all the time. Being a member of an audience is no longer an exceptional event, nor even an everyday event, rather it is constitutive of everyday life. This book offers an invaluable rev

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Born 1944. Educated at Oxford University (B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and London School of Economics (M.Sc. in Sociology). Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Lancaster. Appointed in 1968 as a Research Officer in a Unit specializing in town planning research in the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London. Moved to a lectureship in sociology at the University of Lancaster in 1970, then Professor of Sociology and subsequently Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1995 to 2004. Now retired and Emeritus Professor.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803989628
• ISBN 13: 9780803989627
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 197
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