Audiences and publics : when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere

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Author:

Livingstone, Sonia M.

ISBN:

9781841501291

Publication Information:

Bristol, England ; Portland, Or. : Intellect, 2005.

Physical Description:

244 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Changing media--changing Europe series ; v. 2

Cultural studies

Cultural studies (Bristol, England)

Series Title:

Changing media--changing Europe series ; v. 2

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Social aspects -- Europe.

Mass media -- Economic aspects -- Europe.

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Livingstone, Sonia M.

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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.

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