Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination

by Brian Longhurst

Book Overview

Audiences are problematic and the study of audiences has represented a key site of activity in the social sciences and humanities. Offering a timely review of the past 50 years of theoretical and methodological debate Audiences argues the case for a paradigmatic shift in audience research.

This shift, argue the authors, is necessitated by the emergence of the diffused audience′. Audience experience can no longer be simply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803989628
• ISBN13: 9780803989627
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"