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Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible,
while surveys track trends and policymakers gather information
about audience preferences and demographics. But little attention
has been paid to the specific contextual relationships and
interactions between films and individuals that generate and
sustain audiences. This monograph develops the idea of audiences as
interactive and relational, introducing three innovative concepts:
'personal film journeys', five types of audience formations and
five geographies of film provision. A major challenge of audience
research is how to capture the richness of people's social and
cultural engagement with film. To achieve this, the book uses an
innovative mixed-methods research and computational ontology. It
develops ground-breaking theory and concepts and an innovative
methodology based on an extensive data-set derived from the
under-researched area of British regional film audiences. -- .
Communicative Civic-ness explores how political culture shapes
social media interactions in civic participation, arguing that
social media usage is informed by context-specific civil and
political culture. Drawing on cutting-edge research, the book
develops a new robust theoretical and conceptual framework on civic
engagement and participation, comprising: contextual ethos of civic
communication; political culture and civic communication; use of
social media in private and public spheres; design of social media.
It critically addresses issues within the concept of political
culture and develops the concept of 'communicative civic-ness'.
This concept seeks to aid a better-informed debate about the
capacity of social media to support the pluralistic discussions
that underpin deliberative democratic processes. This book appeals
to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as
academics with an interest in areas including (but not limited to)
sociology, political science and media studies. It will also
provide useful information and understanding to third sector
organisations and policy-makers regarding forms of civic
participation.
Communicative Civic-ness explores how political culture shapes
social media interactions in civic participation, arguing that
social media usage is informed by context-specific civil and
political culture. Drawing on cutting-edge research, the book
develops a new robust theoretical and conceptual framework on civic
engagement and participation, comprising: contextual ethos of civic
communication; political culture and civic communication; use of
social media in private and public spheres; design of social media.
It critically addresses issues within the concept of political
culture and develops the concept of 'communicative civic-ness'.
This concept seeks to aid a better-informed debate about the
capacity of social media to support the pluralistic discussions
that underpin deliberative democratic processes. This book appeals
to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as
academics with an interest in areas including (but not limited to)
sociology, political science and media studies. It will also
provide useful information and understanding to third sector
organisations and policy-makers regarding forms of civic
participation.
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various
changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate
regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a
specific European public sphere as part of the wider European
Project. This timely volume addresses the little understood
relationship between old and new media, communications policy at
the European level, issues of regulation and competition within the
EU, the role of the European Parliament in media policymaking, and
the questions emerging about the sustainability of traditional
public service broadcasting. To understand the concrete
significance of these debates two contributions address specific
practical areas, i.e. the potential of online environments and
specific developments in European media contexts, such as channel
strategies, web-related services, iDTV and community networks.
Consequently, Mediating Europe provides an original and important
contribution to understanding the role of the media in shaping a
European public sphere.
The on-going constitutionalization of Europe has led to various
changes in media and communications, opening up areas of debate
regarding the role of traditional and new media in developing a
specific European public sphere as part of the wider European
Project. This timely volume addresses the little understood
relationship between old and new media, communications policy at
the European level, issues of regulation and competition within the
EU, the role of the European Parliament in media policymaking, and
the questions emerging about the sustainability of traditional
public service broadcasting. To understand the concrete
significance of these debates two contributions address specific
practical areas, i.e. the potential of online environments and
specific developments in European media contexts, such as channel
strategies, web-related services, iDTV and community networks.
Consequently, Mediating Europe provides an original and important
contribution to understanding the role of the media in shaping a
European public sphere.
In this work, Bridgette Wessels offers a unique insight into the
ways in which core public institutions and powerful organizations
develop digital communications and services within the public
realm. The book draws on her ethnographic research with the London
Metropolitan Police Service during their engagement in an
innovative project to improve communication with the public using
digital technology. As one of the largest, most advanced and highly
respected police services in the world, working in a socially,
culturally and demographically complex city, the Metropolitan
Police Service offers a highly revealing case study of technology
and the human processes which it is designed to serve. The
ethnographic research is used to develop a new theoretical and
conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between
social action and technological change, addressing the way in which
technology is socially shaped and culturally informed. The book
also discusses the role of ethnography as a tool for researching
complex multi-perspective, multi-sited networks of the innovation
of digital technologies as forms of communication in late modern
western society.
This book focuses on how public institutions such as the police
create new forms of technically mediated access to information and
services in an environment that can be critical in terms of life,
property and public safety. The development of public applications
of technologies involves not only considering new configurations of
technologies but also the social and symbolic aspects of services
in relation to citizens' lives and expectations. It thus puts the
creation of new technical applications into an arena of changing
social expectations and cultural trends. To explore the issues and
dynamics of the innovation of technologies in this environment a
European Telematics project was studied. The project involved the
Metropolitan Police Service and other public administrations in
London and Europe. A theoretical priority was given to the
meaningfulness of human action and the dynamics of the problem were
analysed through the concept of the cultural form. The combination
of symbolic action and cultural forms analysis enabled the
researcher to gain an understanding of the ways in which new
technologies emerge from the meanings of actors in specific
contexts.
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