Media Audiences

Sue Turnbull is Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and Discipline Leader for the Creative Industries. Her recent publications include European Television Crime Drama and Beyond, co-edited with Kim Toft Hanson and Steven Peacock (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), The TV Crime Drama (Edinburgh University Press 2014) and Media and Communications in Australia (Allen and Unwin 2014) with Stuart Cunningham. With Martin Barker, Sue is joint editor of Participations, Journal of Media and Reception Studies while her current projects include a collaborative investigation into the value of web series to the screen industries, audiences and the creative economy.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionsChapter 2: What is a Media Audience?Chapter 3: Technologies of AudiencingChapter 4: Content and InterpretationChapter 5: The People Who MatterChapter 6: The Madness in Our Method.

A wonderfully distinctive addition to audience studies. Taking a critical approach, Turnbull presents a historically situated account of both classic audience research and user engagement with contemporary media forms.