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.
- ISBN10 8178299356
- ISBN13 9788178299358
- Publish Date 17 March 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English
- URL https://uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book233770