Audiences and Publics : When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere. Changing Media - Changing Europe Series, Volume 2nces and Publics
(2005)
Nonfiction
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Intellect Books, 2005
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781841509235 MWT15753626, 184150923X 15753626
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English
NOTES
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
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