Takahashi Audience Studies

A Japanese Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-135-22780-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

This book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity in an accessible and lively fashion. Based on an ethnography of Japanese engagement with media and ICT in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Takahashi offers a non-Western case study of some of the world’s most advanced ICT users. Integrating non-Western and Western traditions in the social sciences, the book presents a productive new framework for understanding the complex, diverse, and dynamic nature of media audiences in the context of globalization and social change brought on by new media and information technologies. A significant contribution to the ‘internationalisation’ of media studies movement now underway, the book will demonstrate (1) the multiple dimensions of audience engagement; (2) the transformation of the notion of uchi (Japanese social groups) in a media-rich environment; and (3) the role of media and ICT in the process of self-creation. The study considers the future of a Japanese society caught in the currents of globalization and contemporary debates of universalism and cultural specificity, while at the same time offering a view of globalization from a Japanese perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Takahashi, Toshie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction 1. Audience Activity, Everyday Life and Complexity- A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Media Audiences 2. Towards the ‘Internationalising’ of Media Audience Studies from a Japanese Perspective 3. Audience Engagement with Media and ICT 4. Media and Uchi 5. Media, Self-Creation and Everyday Life 6. Reflection on the Audience Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Toshie Takahashi is Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Rikkyo University, Japan.