TY - BOOK AU - Nightingale,Virginia TI - The handbook of media audiences T2 - Global media and communication handbook series (iamcr) SN - 9781405184182 (hardback) U1 - 302.23 22 PY - 2014/// CY - Malden PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Mass media KW - Audiences KW - Mass media and culture KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies KW - bisacsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; cse N2 - "This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media. -Recognizes and appreciates valuable traditional approaches and identifies how they can be applied to, and evolve with, the changing media world -Offers diverse perspectives from which being an audience, theorizing audiences, researching audiences, and doing audience research are approached today -Argues that the field works best by identifying particular 'audience problems' and applying the best theories and research methods available to solving them -Includes contributions from some of the most outstanding international scholars in the field"-- ER -