Audience-citizens
Subtitle: the media, public knowledge and interpretive practice
By: Ramaswami Harindranath.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9788178299358
Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects -- India; Mass media -- Social aspects -- India; Democracy -- India; India -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : media audiences, public knowledge and democracy; title: Audiences and socio-cultural contexts; title: Understanding "understanding" : the hermeneutics of audience reception; title: Exploring "context"; title: Documentary meanings and public knowledge; title: Methodological reflections on "cross-cultural" audience research; title: Non-fiction and audience evaluations; title: Ethnicity, multiculturalism and interpretive practice; title: Making connections : media audiences and cultural citizenship; title: Concluding comments.