The citizen audience : crowds, publics, and individuals / Richard Butsch.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butsch, Richard, 1943-
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Subjects:
Mass media > United States > Audiences.
Physical Description:186 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The politics of audiences in America
  • Theater audiences, crowds, and publics
  • From crowds to masses : movies, radio, and advertising
  • From cultivated individual to public citizen
  • Broadcast publics
  • Mass media, mass man
  • Media effects and passive audiences
  • Boob tube, fans, and addicts : pathological audiences
  • Epilogue.