Introduction 1. Audiences Articulating Advertising 2. Beyond Attitudes: To the Audience Itself! Understanding Consumers: Interpretive Inductivism 3. Interpreting Place Branding: Absorbing or Alienating? 4. From Productive Consumer to Reflective Citizen: A Reception Study of Advertising Academia Online 5. Cell Phone Connections: Audiences Activating Agora 6. Mall-eable Media Marketing: ‘Give Reality the Slip’? 7. Banks, Blogging and Reflexive Branding. Conclusion
Biography
Tony Wilson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at University Malaysia Sarawak and Associate Research Fellow in the Global Cities Institute Globalization and Culture Program, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is the author of five monographs on audience - consumer studies including, Watching Television: Hermeneutics, Reception and Popular Culture (1993, 1995) and Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice (2008, 2009). He is currently reconnoitering cultural horizons of East/West consumption in Malaysia, the anglophone gateway to S.E. Asia.
