Author : D. Charles Whitney
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Audiencemaking by : D. Charles Whitney
Download or read book Audiencemaking written by D. Charles Whitney and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book shows how media institutions define their audiences and how these definitions shape the work of organizations within them. Leading scholars show that the audience definitions-in-use in each sector shape modern media. Receivers, they argue, are constituted as institutionally-effective audiences that have social meaning and//or economic value within the system. These include measured audiences, generated by research services, sold by media channels and bought by advertisers; specialized or segmented audiences whose particular interests are anticipated or created and then met by content producers; and hypothesized audiences whose interest, convenience and necessity are presumably protected by regulators.