rethinking media audiences for a postmodern world /
First Statement of Responsibility
[collected by] Ien Ang.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1996.
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vii, 208 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: media audiences, postmodernity and cultural contradiction -- 1. The Battle Between Television and Its Audiences -- 2. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research -- 3. New Technologies, Audience Measurement and the Tactics of Television Consumption -- 4. Ethnography and Radical Contextualism in Audience Studies -- 5. Melodramatic Identifications: Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy -- 6. Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance -- 7. Gender and/In Media Consumption / Joke Hermes and Ien Ang -- 8. Cultural Studies, Media Reception and the Transnational Media System -- 9. Global Media/Local Meaning -- 10. In the Realm of Uncertainty: The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on media audiences to ask what it means to live in a world saturated by media.