Rating the audience the business of media

Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research became a convention , an agreement, a...

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Otros Autores: Balnaves, Mark, author (author), O'Regan, Tom, author, Goldsmith, Ben, 1967- author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic 2011.
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Sumario:Knowing, measuring and understanding media audiences have become a multi-billion dollar business. But the convention that underpins that business, audience ratings, is in crisis. Rating the Audience is the first book to show why and how audience ratings research became a convention , an agreement, and the first to interrogate the ways that agreement is now under threat. Taking a historical approach, the book looks at the evolution of audience ratings and the survey industry. It goes on to analyse today's media environment, looking at the role of the internet and the increased difficulties it p
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (289 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781283479141
9786613479143
9781849664608