Audiences and Publics

Audiences and PublicsIn todays thoroughly mass mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people. Yet social science traditionally treats them quite differently. Indeed, it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses, audiences are denigrated as trivial, passive, individualised, while publics are valued as active, critically engaged and politically significant.

Manipulating her father

Film schools have historically focused on a film-maker's creativity

With contributions from some of the leading academics in the field

Writing from the dual perspectives of artist and educator

Covering the silent era to the present

devising two schemes based on her observations of the natural movements of young children's hands

and professionally typeset manuscript

Liberta feels she must ignore her mother’s side of the family as a means of rejecting her African roots

songs and oral legends of Native American tribes from around the country

This monograph provides a much-needed history of the Arab print media as well as an in-depth study of translated Arab media sources

Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by Joss Whedon’s television series

personal and spiritual experiences vividly concrete and communicable