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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Deconstructing the Ratings Machine: An Introduction
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Inventing Measurement
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Front Matter
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Appropriating Audience Figures
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Front Matter
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Confronting Changes
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"This collection is a most comprehensive book on television ratings systems. It offers a remarkable breadth of case studies of nations from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. These also include a wide variety of types of measurement practices and organizational structures. Such an array offers great opportunities for comparative analyses. Just as important, the book is theoretically, analytically and critically sophisticated. It examines the various critiques of audience measurement, such as the important distinction between substantive and procedural truths and the underlying assumptions in quantification and statistics about human behaviour and social relations." - Richard Butsch, Rider University, USA
"The book is an impressive collection of chapters which together provide a wide perspective of perspectives on audiences - and to that degree the book is truly unique - that captures the systems of audience measurement ultimately based on ratings of some kind as well as the scope of ensuing challenges to audience measurement ... this book is certainly a contribution to strengthening the foundation of the field and allowing for much more advanced discussions in the future." - Media Innovations, 2015
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jérôme Bourdon
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Mines ParisTech and Researcher, Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI), France
Cécile Méadel
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Television Audiences Across the World
Book Subtitle: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine
Editors: Jérôme Bourdon, Cécile Méadel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345103
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34509-7Published: 24 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46633-7Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34510-3Published: 24 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 274
Topics: Screen Studies, Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural History, Media and Communication, Media Research, Cultural Studies