1st Edition

Audience Studies A Japanese Perspective

By Toshie Takahashi Copyright 2010
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

This book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity in an accessible and lively fashion.  Based on an ethnography of Japanese engagement with media and ICT in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Takahashi offers a non-Western case study of some of the world’s most advanced ICT users. Integrating non-Western and... Read more

Preface  Introduction  1. Audience Activity, Everyday Life and Complexity- A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Media Audiences  2. Towards the ‘Internationalising’ of Media Audience Studies from a Japanese Perspective  3. Audience Engagement with Media and ICT  4. Media and Uchi  5. Media, Self-Creation and Everyday Life  6. Reflection on the Audience  Appendices

Biography

Toshie Takahashi is Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Rikkyo University, Japan.