Sonia M Livingstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 216582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia M Livingstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Livingstone |
| SIGNATURE | LIVINGSTONE S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives
In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with parents both rich and poor, parenting toddlers to teenagers, this book reveals how digital technologies give parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, …
The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world.Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.orgDo today’s youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?Based upon fieldwork at an…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Meanings of audiences: Comparative Discourses
1. Introduction: Translating Audiences, Provincializing the West Richard Butsch and Sonia Livingstone 2. Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece David Kawalko Roselli 3. When Curiosity Met Printing: Audiences and New Media in Early Modern History Christian Oggolder 4. Shoppers, Dupes and other Types: Television Audience in Post-Soviet Russian Discourses Sudha Rajagopalan 5. Between Unruliness and Sociality: Discourses on Diasporic Cinema Audience…
Children and Their Changing Media Environment
New Media
The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture
Children, youth and the mobile phone In its short life, a surprisingly large literature on the use of mobile communication among children and teens has been written. Indeed, in recent years there has hardly been a conference or a collection of readings that did not include work in this area. The iconic status of the mobile telephone among children and teens has been one of the big surprises associated with this form of communication. While origin…
Handbook of new media: Social shaping and social consequences - fully revised student edition
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
Introduction - Leah A Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone The Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs PART ONE: THE CHANGING SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Introduction - Sonia Livingstone The Information Society Revisited - Frank Webster Creating Community with Media - Nicholas W Jankowski History, Theories and Scientific Investigations Politics and New Media - Sara Bentivegna Interpersonal Life Online - Nancy K Baym The Electronic Generation? - David Buckingham C…
Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment
"Combining a comprehensive literature review with original empirical research on young people's use of new media, this book provides a fresh and in-depth discussion of the increasingly complex relationship between the media and childhood, the family and the home." "We can no longer imagine our daily lives without media and communication technologies. At the start of the 21st century, the home is being transformed into the site of a multimedia cul…
Making sense of television: The Psychology of Audience Interpretation
The Rise and Fall of Audience Research: An Old Story With a New Ending
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of Audience Research: An Old Story With a New Ending Get access Sonia M. Livingstone Sonia M. Livingstone 1Sonia Livingstone is a lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 4, December 1993, Pages 5–12, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466…
Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate
Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on Television examines the value and significance of televised public debate. Analysing a wide range of programmes including Kilroy, Donohue and The Oprah Winfr…
Debating drunk driving: The construction of causal explanations in television discussion programmes
The mass media are an important source of social understandings and representations. The growing genre of audience discussion programmes functions as a public forum for airing opinions on issues of social concern. The genre is structured so as to involve viewers, to validate ordinary experiences and to express opinion. Four programmes on drunk driving were analysed for the causal explanations they offer viewers. The causes, effects and causal int…
Expert and Lay Participation in Television Debates: An Analysis of Audience Discussion Programmes
The television audience discussion programme is critically analysed as a cultural forum in which the viewer-as-citizen may participate in public debate. These programmes place experts and ordinary viewers face to face in a studio audience to discuss an issue of current social concern. The viewer thus plays a role as joint author of the text. The programmes raise issues of citizenship, political participation, the active viewer and the cultural fo…
Predicting personal debt and debt repayment: Psychological, social and economic determinants
The Resourceful Reader: Interpreting Television Characters and Narratives
The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers’ interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The “active viewer” is accepted by both traditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence between these two schools through a more sophisticated theory of the relation between text and reader. Recent empirical research within the reader-reception theory tradi…
Psychological, social and economic determinants of saving: Comparing recurrent and total savings
Interpreting a Television Narrative: How Different Viewers See a Story
Questions have been raised about whether all viewers receive the same message from a television program. However, there has been little systematic investigation of divergence in interpretations. The present research investigated the nature and degree of divergence among viewers' interpretations of a soap opera narrative watched in natural circumstances. Four distinct interpretive positions were adopted by viewers which related closely but not str…
Audience Reception and the Analysis of Program Meaning: Comments on Kepplinger
Why People Watch Soap Opera: An Analysis of the Explanations of British Viewers
The high popularity of soap opera raises important questions about viewers' involvement with the genre. British viewers' explanations for watching soap opera are shown to concern escapism, realism, relationship with characters, critical response, problem-solving, role in viewer's life, emotional experience and entertainment. These are discussed in relation to research on critical response to the media, the expressed aims of soap opera producers, …
The Implicit Representation of Characters in Dallas: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach
Current research on the psychological effects of television viewing emphasizes the mediating role played by viewers' interpretations of the characters and events portrayed. Three studies used multidimensional scaling to discover the main themes by which views represent the characters in Dallas. In Study I, a two-dimensional space captured viewers' representations of the characters. Study II replicated this space using a different method. Study II…
Predicting personal debt and debt repayment: Psychological, social and economic determinants
Psychological, social and economic determinants of saving: Comparing recurrent and total savings
The Implicit Representation of Characters in Dallas: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach
Current research on the psychological effects of television viewing emphasizes the mediating role played by viewers' interpretations of the characters and events portrayed. Three studies used multidimensional scaling to discover the main themes by which views represent the characters in Dallas. In Study I, a two-dimensional space captured viewers' representations of the characters. Study II replicated this space using a different method. Study II…
The Resourceful Reader: Interpreting Television Characters and Narratives
The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers’ interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The “active viewer” is accepted by both traditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence between these two schools through a more sophisticated theory of the relation between text and reader. Recent empirical research within the reader-reception theory tradi…
Expert and Lay Participation in Television Debates: An Analysis of Audience Discussion Programmes
The television audience discussion programme is critically analysed as a cultural forum in which the viewer-as-citizen may participate in public debate. These programmes place experts and ordinary viewers face to face in a studio audience to discuss an issue of current social concern. The viewer thus plays a role as joint author of the text. The programmes raise issues of citizenship, political participation, the active viewer and the cultural fo…
Why People Watch Soap Opera: An Analysis of the Explanations of British Viewers
The high popularity of soap opera raises important questions about viewers' involvement with the genre. British viewers' explanations for watching soap opera are shown to concern escapism, realism, relationship with characters, critical response, problem-solving, role in viewer's life, emotional experience and entertainment. These are discussed in relation to research on critical response to the media, the expressed aims of soap opera producers, …
Debating drunk driving: The construction of causal explanations in television discussion programmes
The mass media are an important source of social understandings and representations. The growing genre of audience discussion programmes functions as a public forum for airing opinions on issues of social concern. The genre is structured so as to involve viewers, to validate ordinary experiences and to express opinion. Four programmes on drunk driving were analysed for the causal explanations they offer viewers. The causes, effects and causal int…
Audience Reception and the Analysis of Program Meaning: Comments on Kepplinger
The Implicit Representation of Characters in Dallas: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach
Current research on the psychological effects of television viewing emphasizes the mediating role played by viewers' interpretations of the characters and events portrayed. Three studies used multidimensional scaling to discover the main themes by which views represent the characters in Dallas. In Study I, a two-dimensional space captured viewers' representations of the characters. Study II replicated this space using a different method. Study II…
Why People Watch Soap Opera: An Analysis of the Explanations of British Viewers
The high popularity of soap opera raises important questions about viewers' involvement with the genre. British viewers' explanations for watching soap opera are shown to concern escapism, realism, relationship with characters, critical response, problem-solving, role in viewer's life, emotional experience and entertainment. These are discussed in relation to research on critical response to the media, the expressed aims of soap opera producers, …
Audience Reception and the Analysis of Program Meaning: Comments on Kepplinger
Interpreting a Television Narrative: How Different Viewers See a Story
Questions have been raised about whether all viewers receive the same message from a television program. However, there has been little systematic investigation of divergence in interpretations. The present research investigated the nature and degree of divergence among viewers' interpretations of a soap opera narrative watched in natural circumstances. Four distinct interpretive positions were adopted by viewers which related closely but not str…
Psychological, social and economic determinants of saving: Comparing recurrent and total savings
Debating drunk driving: The construction of causal explanations in television discussion programmes
The mass media are an important source of social understandings and representations. The growing genre of audience discussion programmes functions as a public forum for airing opinions on issues of social concern. The genre is structured so as to involve viewers, to validate ordinary experiences and to express opinion. Four programmes on drunk driving were analysed for the causal explanations they offer viewers. The causes, effects and causal int…
Expert and Lay Participation in Television Debates: An Analysis of Audience Discussion Programmes
The television audience discussion programme is critically analysed as a cultural forum in which the viewer-as-citizen may participate in public debate. These programmes place experts and ordinary viewers face to face in a studio audience to discuss an issue of current social concern. The viewer thus plays a role as joint author of the text. The programmes raise issues of citizenship, political participation, the active viewer and the cultural fo…
Predicting personal debt and debt repayment: Psychological, social and economic determinants
The Resourceful Reader: Interpreting Television Characters and Narratives
The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers’ interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The “active viewer” is accepted by both traditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence between these two schools through a more sophisticated theory of the relation between text and reader. Recent empirical research within the reader-reception theory tradi…
The Rise and Fall of Audience Research: An Old Story With a New Ending
Journal Article The Rise and Fall of Audience Research: An Old Story With a New Ending Get access Sonia M. Livingstone Sonia M. Livingstone 1Sonia Livingstone is a lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 4, December 1993, Pages 5–12, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466…
Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate
Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on Television examines the value and significance of televised public debate. Analysing a wide range of programmes including Kilroy, Donohue and The Oprah Winfr…
Making sense of television: The Psychology of Audience Interpretation
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
Introduction - Leah A Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone The Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs PART ONE: THE CHANGING SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Introduction - Sonia Livingstone The Information Society Revisited - Frank Webster Creating Community with Media - Nicholas W Jankowski History, Theories and Scientific Investigations Politics and New Media - Sara Bentivegna Interpersonal Life Online - Nancy K Baym The Electronic Generation? - David Buckingham C…
Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment
"Combining a comprehensive literature review with original empirical research on young people's use of new media, this book provides a fresh and in-depth discussion of the increasingly complex relationship between the media and childhood, the family and the home." "We can no longer imagine our daily lives without media and communication technologies. At the start of the 21st century, the home is being transformed into the site of a multimedia cul…
Handbook of new media: Social shaping and social consequences - fully revised student edition
The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture
Children, youth and the mobile phone In its short life, a surprisingly large literature on the use of mobile communication among children and teens has been written. Indeed, in recent years there has hardly been a conference or a collection of readings that did not include work in this area. The iconic status of the mobile telephone among children and teens has been one of the big surprises associated with this form of communication. While origin…
New Media
Children and Their Changing Media Environment
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Meanings of audiences: Comparative Discourses
1. Introduction: Translating Audiences, Provincializing the West Richard Butsch and Sonia Livingstone 2. Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece David Kawalko Roselli 3. When Curiosity Met Printing: Audiences and New Media in Early Modern History Christian Oggolder 4. Shoppers, Dupes and other Types: Television Audience in Post-Soviet Russian Discourses Sudha Rajagopalan 5. Between Unruliness and Sociality: Discourses on Diasporic Cinema Audience…
The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world.Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.orgDo today’s youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?Based upon fieldwork at an…
Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives
In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. Drawing on extensive research with parents both rich and poor, parenting toddlers to teenagers, this book reveals how digital technologies give parenting struggles a distinctive character, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent, …
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social aspects (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Art (6 works)