Audience-Citizens: The Media, Public Knowledge and Interpretive Practice explores the relationship between media and democracy from the perspective of the audience and proposes a unique conceptual framework for the analysis of audiences, consumption patterns and citizenship. Drawing on original research on the interpretation of documentaries by audiences in India and Britain, this book examines how sociological and cultural factors affect the interpretation of mediated knowledge. It develops a fresh approach to the relational dynamics of media and politics in contemporary India and by extension elsewhere in the developing world.This refreshing combination of conceptual novelty and analytical rigour will hold great value for academics, research scholars and students of media and communication studies, politics, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as professionals involved with journalism, news and documentary filmmaking.
von: Birgit Richard, Alexander Ruhl, Diedrich Diederichsen, Sabine Fabo, Alexander Fleischmann, Jan Grünwald, Hans Peter Hahn, Sabine Himmelsbach, Jörg Hoewner, Christoph Jacke, Josef Jöchl, Verena Kuni, Franz Liebl, Lev Manovich, Nina Metz, Peter Mörtenböck, Marcus Recht, Thilo Schwer, Martina Seefeld, Jörg van der Horst, Harry Wolff, Jutta Zaremba