ABSTRACT

The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone--their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. Bird provides a host of useful tools and methods for scholars and students interested in the ways media is consumed in everyday life.

chapter |20 pages

Beyond the Audience

Living in a Media World

chapter |35 pages

Piecing a Cyber-Quilt

Media Fans in an Electronic Community

chapter |32 pages

Imagining Indians

Negotiating Identity in a Media World

chapter |27 pages

A Popular Aesthetic?

Exploring Taste through Viewer Ethnography

chapter |19 pages

CJ's Revenge

A Case Study of News as Cultural Narrative

chapter |29 pages

Media Ethnography

An Interdisciplinary Future