by Annette Hill (Author)
Media Experiences travels across people and popular culture, exploring the pathways to engagement and the various ways in which we shape and are shaped by the media landscapes in which we move. This exploration includes the voices and bodies, sights and sounds of audiences as they experience entertainment through television drama, reality TV, at live events, and within digital television itself, as actors, participants and producers. It is about the people who create the drama, live events and reality entertainment that we experience. This book traverses the relationships between producers and audiences in shared places of a media imagination.
Annette Hill's research draws on interviews and observations with over five hundred producers and audience members to explore cultures of viewing across different genres, such as Nordic Noir crime drama The Bridge, cult conspiracy thriller Utopia, and reality television audiences and participants in global formats MasterChef and Got to Dance. The research highlights how trends such as multi-screening, catch up viewing, amateur media and piracy work alongside counter trends in retro television viewing where people relish the social ritual of watching live television, or create a social media blackout for immersive viewing.
Media Experiences bridges the divide between industry and academia, highlighting how producers and audiences co-create, shape and limit experiences within emerging mediascapes.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Jan 2017
ISBN 10: 0415625351
ISBN 13: 9780415625357
Media Experiences is a unique book that captures a television audience in a state of unprecedented change, shining a light on the dynamics that shape the fundamental relationship between the content creator and the audience.
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, EndemolShine
This 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
Annette 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
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