Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses - Softcover

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Richard Butsch is Professor of Sociology and Film and Media Studies at Rider University, New Jersey, USA. He is author of The Making of American Audiences from Stage to Television, 1750 to 1990 and The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals, and editor of For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption and Media and Public Spheres. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled Screen Culture: A Global History.

Sonia Livingstone is a professor at the Department of Media and Communications, LSE. Her research examines children, young people and the internet; media and digital literacies; the mediated public sphere; audience reception, the public understanding of communications regulation. Her sixteen authored or edited books include Making Sense of Television (1998), Audiences and Publics (2005), The Handbook of New Media (2006), Media Consumption and Public Engagement (2010) and Media Regulation (2012).