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The rise and fall of audience research : an old story with a new ending

Livingstone, Sonia ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862 (1993) The rise and fall of audience research : an old story with a new ending. Journal of Communication, 43 (4). pp. 5-12. ISSN 1460-2466

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Discusses theoretical and methodological opposition that dominate mass communications research. Critical versus administrative research; Study of texts versus the study of audiences; Use of qualitative versus quantitative methods; Focus on the mass communication audience; Theories of literary reception from high culture; Study of the notion of context-dependent meaning.

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Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited: 11 Oct 2005
Last Modified: 13 Nov 2024 13:00
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/410

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