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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Audience research"”.
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Audience research for fun and profit : rediscovering the value of television audiences
… brought about by digital distribution and audience fragmentation. This thesis argues that the television industry can no longer adapt to the changing media landscape because structural relationships and business logics forged in previous eras do not allow for meaningful innovation. This …
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Scottish television comedy audiences
… theory, methodology and analysis of empirical audience research. The thesis begins by exploring how current television comedy is poorly served by critical literature beyond notions of genre although this field of study too fails to indicate significant contemporary permeabilities between comedy …
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Premium blend : a polysemic approach to contemporary problems in public radio
… observation. First, a critical review of the audience research literature and the electronic discussions of public radio professionals revealed the discursive struggles concerning mission, service, community, and audience. Second, a survey of KUOP's members was used to compare KUOP with the …
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The Psychological, Sociological, and Cultural Aspects of Professional Wrestling as Soap Opera.
… and sociological releases for its viewing audience. Research methodology includes participant-observation and content analysis. Findings suggest that professional wrestling provides various types of emotional outlets for its viewing audience by allowing the participants to form social …
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The West End theatre audience 1981-1986
This study gives an account of audience research undertaken between 1981 and 1986 at a sample of London theatres, and covering a wide range of productions, with the aim of establishing a profile of the West End theatre audience. Prior to this research, audience surveys in the U.K. had take place …
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An exploration of media repertoires in South Africa: 2002-2014
… 2014. It utilises data from the South African Audience Research Foundation’s All Media and Products Surveys. Using factor analysis, six media repertoires are identified and, utilising structural equation modelling, marginal means for various demographic categories by year are estimated. …
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Colorado Stories: Interpreting HIstory for Public Audiences at the History Colorado Center
… a three-way dialogue between scholars, museum audiences, and community stakeholders. Four communities, Amache, Sand Creek, Lincoln Hills, and the Latino borderlands of southern Colorado required particular care. The interpretation for each of these communities was inherently political, …
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Audience Engagement: An Artist-Researcher's Approach to Meaningful Concert Experiences
… has been given to improving and sustaining audience engagement. This doctoral dissertation investigates audience experience at classical music performances from the perspective of the performer. Using a mixed-methodology of arts-based research and qualitative research, I organized and …
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The Reception of the Works of Contemporary Chinese Glam-Writers in Mainland China
… and makes an original empirical contribution to audience research in mainland China where such research is as yet not developed. By adopting a range of qualitative research methods, I investigate the ways in which contemporary Chinese readers understand and respond to a particular type of women’s …
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Daughter of fortune: Isabel Allende's popularity from a readership perspective
… this ‘readerly’ approach draws on feminist audience research and primarily on the work of Ien Ang and Janice Radway. Their work with viewers and readers respectively is particularly useful in establishing and developing methodological parameters for the study of reading groups. As a whole, …
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Managing ourselves: young people, soap opera and technologies of self-government
… are produced in Australia and watched by large audiences in the UK. The study's broadest aim is to discover the nature of the relationship between the programmes and their teenage viewers. In order to meet this aim, the study combines textual analysis and audience research. Following a review of …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… derived from poststructuralist theory and audience reception studies, the first aspect of this tri-partite investigation examines the macro context of this episode's production in the United States in 1992, and identifies competing constructions of 'motherhood' and 'the family' circulating …
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Engaging voices or talking to air? A study of alternative and community radio audience in the digital era
… community exist? This dissertation investigates audience interaction and participation in the U.S. community radio sector, seeking to empirically and theoretically advance audience research in community radio and alternative media in general. Methodologically, this dissertation is based on case …
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Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television
This interdisciplinary original research engages with the fields of TV documentary production, children’s television, historiography, and the pedagogy of history teaching. From this large field, I am taking what is necessary for my research as a practitioner. The purpose of my practice-based PhD …
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Crossing the ether
… of broadcasting, namely scheduling and audience research, and the development of broadcast technology, notably recording processes. In Part Four the dissertation details the central issue of concerted commercial attacks on the BBC's monopoly, exploiting in particular its controversial …
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Ethnography of Indian diaspora women watching Bollywood cinema in South Africa
… interest in Bollywood, very little ethnographic research has been conducted on Bollywood audiences outside of India. Specifically with regard to this study, no audience research has been conducted on female Indian viewers in South Africa, thus this study focuses on the construction of meaning in …
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Beyond totalitarian nostalgia: a critical urban reception study of historical drama on contemporary Chinese television
… revival of Confucianism, virtually no empirical research has been done to explore how Chinese audiences relate their viewing experiences to the revival of Confucianism according to their own social and cultural conditions. This thesis presents a qualitative audience study of how the historical …
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