Representing Audiences: Audience Research, Public Knowledge, and Policy
2013; Routledge; Volume: 16; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10714421.2013.757487
ISSN1547-7487
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Feminism, and Media
ResumoAbstract This article explores some of the dilemmas and difficulties encountered by academic researchers (and specifically those who work on media audiences) in presenting their work in the public domain. It considers some examples of media coverage of debates about media audiences, raising questions about academic authority, research evidence and public knowledge. It points to the limitations of a view of such debates as "moral panics" and proposes a different approach based on social constructionist analyses of "social problems." It concludes by considering some of the ambivalence and uncertainty that surrounds the increasingly common requirement for academics to become engaged with the public at large. Notes 1 For further details on this debate, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/06/research-autism-internet-susan-greenfield. 2 Starkey's contribution is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5TcTSa9kk 3 For a passionate discussion of the issues raised by Starkey's intervention, see CitationPhoenix and Phoenix (2012). For a discussion of media coverage of the immediate aftermath of the riots, see CitationBuckingham (2011a). 4 The report itself is published as Home CitationOffice (2010). For discussion of academic responses to the report, see CitationSmith and Attwood (2011). CitationAttwood and others (2012) discuss the uses of blogging as a means of intervening in such debates. Papadopoulos's own site is www.drlinda.com. 5 In late 2011 I appeared, alongside Professor Susan Greenfield, in an edition of BBC Radio 4's The Media Show, which discussed some interesting instances of this: This programme (tx. December 28, 2011) is still available at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018gqzy. 6 This report was published as CitationDepartment of Children, Schools and Families and Department of Culture, Media and Sport (2009).
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