Understanding Audiences

Learning To Use the Media Constructively
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-23533-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Communication Series

Fully updated for a second edition, Understanding Audiences helps students recognize the crucial role that media plays in their lives and ways in which they can use it constructively.

Robert H. Wicks, David Atkin and Carolyn A. Lin consider the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how messages shape perceptions of social reality. They analyse how contemporary media vie for the attention of the audience members and evaluate the importance of message structure and content in attracting and maintaining the attention of audiences. This fully updated and revised edition explores new business models - including social media influencers, IP licensing, non-industry content creation - as well as emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), and their impact on an evolving media environment. The book promotes the development of media literacy skills and helps readers to understand the processes associated with engaging them in media messages. It also offers them tools to apply toward the shaping of media in a socially constructive way.

This book is ideal for reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students who need to understand the evolving nature of the media and how to best use it.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wicks, Robert

Atkin, David J.

Lin, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Exploring Media Messages in the Emerging AI environment

Chapter 2: Extracting Media Effects to Construct Social Reality

Chapter 3: Captivating the Audience Attention

Chapter 4: Comprehension Through Processing Media Information

Chapter 5: Persuading the Media Audience

Chapter 6: Framing Media Information

Chapter 7: Accommodating Children as Media Audience Members

Chapter 8: Radio, Podcasts and Television Talk Programs Come of Age

Chapter 9: The Audience for Digital Entertainment

Chapter 10: Learning to Use the Media Constructively

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert H. Wicks is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA. He specializes in mass communication theory and research, and his work focuses on human information processing and how audiences use traditional and new media. His books include Understanding Audiences (2001) and From Legacy Media to Going Viral (2024).

David J. Atkin is Professor of Communication at the University of Connecticut, USA. His research focuses on media technology, political communication, and digital media. His books include Communication Technology and Society (2002), The Televiewing Audience (1st and 2nd editions) (2011), Communication Technology and Social Change (2007), and Audience Genre Expectations in the Age of Digital Media (2022).

Carolyn A. Lin is Professor of Communication at the University of Connecticut, USA. She researches how digital media technology and communication impact the audience in advertising, media, health, and environmental contexts. Her books include Communication Technology and Society (2002), Communication Technology and Social Change (2007), and Television Dramas and the Global Village (2021).