1st Edition
Media Experiences Engaging with Drama and Reality Television
Chapter One: Pathways to Engagement; Chapter Two: An Analytic Dialogue; Chapter Three: Roaming Audiences: The Bridge; Chapter Four: Spectrum of Engagement: Got to Dance; Chapter Five: The Cool Heart of Nordic Noir; Chapter Six: Illegal Audiences: Utopia; Chapter Seven: Embedded Engagement: Reality Talent Shows; Chapter Eight: Authentic Reality TV: The Case of MasterChef; Chapter Nine: Warm Up Acts; Chapter Ten: Audiences as Pathfinders; Appendices
Biography
Annette Hill is Professor in Media and Communication at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at Kings College London, UK. Her research focuses on audiences and popular culture, with interests in media engagement, everyday life, genres, production studies and cultures of viewing. She is the author of eight books, including Reality TV: Key Ideas (2015).
Hill’s concept of a "Roaming Audience" navigates the reader through the ever-growing spectrum of genres, platforms and viewing environments, and ultimately brings a greater understanding to that eternal question that preoccupies the media industry, as to what makes audiences passionately engage with great TV content.
Doug Wood, EndemolShineThis is a book that will change the way you think about television audiences. In Media Experiences, Annette Hill offers a vivid and original account of audience agency in the internet age, focusing on everyday "push-pull" engagements between viewers, producers, and platforms.
Ramon Lobato, RMIT University, AustraliaAnnette Hill’s deep love for television, its makers and audiences make Media Experiences a thoroughly enjoyable read. Offering fresh concepts such as roaming audiences, emotional truth and life politics, this book provides insight in audience and production practices and how we engage with television. It easily proves that television in the digital age is the most exciting medium.
Joke Hermes, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
