TY - BOOK AU - Alasuutari, Pertti. TI - Rethinking the media audience: the new agenda SN - 0761950702 AV - P96.A83 R48 1999 U1 - 302.23 21 PY - 1999/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - Mass media KW - Audiences N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART ONE: THE SHAPE OF AUDIENCE RESEARCH Introduction - Pertti Alasuutari Three Phases of Reception Studies Audience and Reception Research in Retrospect - Ann Gray The Trouble with Audiences The Best of both Worlds? Media Audience Research between Rival Paradigms - Kim Schr[sl]oder PART TWO: THE NEW AGENDA: THE INSCRIPTION OF AUDIENCES Media Figures in Identity Construction - Joke Hermes Cultural Images of the Media - Pertti Alasuutari Legitimations of Television Programme Policies - Heikki Hellman Patterns of Argumentation and Discursive Convergencies in a Multichannel Age Slaves of the Ratings Tyranny? Media Images of the Audience - Ingunn Hagen The Implied Audience in Soap Opera Production - John Tulloch Everyday Rhetorical Strategies among Television Professionals To Be an Audience - Birgitta H[um]oijer `To Boldly Go...' - David Morley The `Third Generation' of Reception Studies ER -