A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass media Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audi

In an interactive and densely connected world, transnational communication has become a central feature of everyday life. Taking account of a variety of media f

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our life worlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst consi

Media scholarship has responded to a rapidly evolving media environment that has challenged existing theories and methods while also giving rise to new theoreti

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