Television Audiences Across the World
Subtitle: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781137345097
Subjects: Television programs, rating; Television viewers
Description: This title is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and television practices. It provides an account of the production of figures on which the whole world of popular culture depends.