Annette Hill

Biographic Data

ID3687869
NAMEAnnette Hill
GIVEN NAMESAnnette
FAMILY NAMEHill
SIGNATUREHILL A
AFFILIATIONSLund University
ORCID0000-0002-8955-7184
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS84
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Audience frictions

    Open AccessAnnette Hill, Peter LuntARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2026

    Against a backdrop of new ways of engaging and configuring audiences across technologies, platforms, regions and modes, there is a revitalisation of audience studies, offering fresh theoretical and empirical territories that follow the frictions of social tensions and resistance in challenging modes of being an audience. As audiences engage with media, including artificial intelligence and related technologies, they are encountering and dealing w…

  • The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences

    Annette Hill, Peter LuntBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Media…2024

    As affective flatness entailing a sense of stuckness in the present, boredom is routinely cast as the conceptual and experiential opposite of interest indicative of the richness of experience. Taking a different analytical route, this chapter makes an argument for considering boredom and interest in dynamic relation with one another as oscillations in affective intensity. It further calls for adding nuance into what boredom actually means by addr…

  • Streaming platform imaginaries: Audiences and Southeast Asian streaming

    Open AccessAnnette HillARTICLEContinuum2024References: 8

  • Media Engagement

    Peter Dahlgren, Annette HillBOOKMedia Engagement2023

  • The Routledge Handbook of Mobile Socialities

    Annette Hill, Maren Hartmann et al.BOOKRoutledge Handbook of Mobile…2021

    This is a state-of-the-art survey of an emerging area of study in media, communication and cultural studies, mobility studies and mobile communications.‘Mobile socialities’ demarcates a new area of research that captures people’s various and con- trary experiences of media in relation to their mobilities and socialities. The chapters in this volume are written by a range of international scholars offering a comprehensive overview and source of in…

  • Routledge Handbook of Mobile Socialities

    Annette Hill, Magnus Andersson et al.BOOKRoutledge Handbook of Mobile…2021

  • Roamers: Audiences on the Move Across Entertainment Platforms In Southeast Asia

    Open AccessAnnette Hill, Jian Chung LeeARTICLEJavnost - The Public2021

    Media industries recognise the extent to which the potential audiences for their products are now made up significantly of “roamers,” people finding diverse routes through the options available and combining them in different ways. The main research question in this article is: what sort of precise movements, combinations and connections become possible for roaming audiences in rapidly expanding commercial entertainment platforms? The article dra…

  • Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

    Open AccessAnnette HillARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2021References: 1

    Oppenheimer describes The Act of Killing as a ‘documentary about the imagination. We are documenting the ways we imagine ourselves, the ways we know ourselves’. This research analyses the documentary films The Act of Killing (Director Oppenheimer, co-directors Christine Cynn and anonymous 2012) and The Look of Silence (director Oppenheimer 2014), and the documentary imaginary. The research combines normally separate sites of analysis in productio…

  • Fear: Introduction to special issue

    Open AccessAnnette Hill, Mette Mortensen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2021References: 2

    Fear needs dealing with. Fear demands to be abated, countered or turned into something else, contributing and curtailing how we ‘do’ being human beings. This special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies addresses fear within media and popular culture, adopting a cultural studies approach to fear in a variety of socio-cultural and political contexts. A cultural studies approach allows us to enhance the horizon of understanding cultura…

  • Media industries and audience research

    Annette HillCHAPTERHandbook of Media and Communication…2020

    This chapter offers a reflection on the value of dialogue across media industries and academia for enhancing the understanding of audience engagement and disengagement with media. The idea of an analytic dialogue – involving practitioners, researchers, and audiences and grounded in analyses of both production and reception – came about in discussing the value of qualitative audience research. The chapter highlights how production-cum-audience res…

  • Parameters of Media Engagement

    Open AccessPeter Dahlgren, Annette HillARTICLEMedia theory2020

    Engagement is a tricky term to pin down, shifting meaning in the media industries, across political communication and within popular culture. But the definition of engagement matters, as new currencies circulate in academic and industry discourses. The argument put forward here is that media engagement is a term that has been used in a strategic way within the media industries to capture social media analytics and ratings performance, thus instru…

  • Who killed Utopia ? Cult conspiracy drama and a television imaginary

    Open AccessAnnette HillARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2020References: 5

    This article focuses on the production and reception of television drama, specifically the case study of conspiracy thriller Utopia. The empirical research is based on 21 production interviews with the makers of the drama and 56 interviews with audience members and fans of the drama. The concept of the television imaginary is used as an analytical lens for investigating the various ways television itself, and audiences and fans, are imagined and …

  • Television’s undoing of social distancing

    Open AccessJoke Hermes, Annette HillARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2020Cited by: 10References: 5

    At this critical moment in time, April 2020, when we are living with the cataclysmic event of Covid-19, television – a medium declared almost dead at the beginning of this millennium – has become a vital resource for solace, daydreaming, social ritual, knowledge and storytelling. In conditions of lockdown, we turn towards television, not away from it (Ellis, 2020; Negra, 2020). We are checking news on national channels, and tuning to live broadca…

  • Transgression in contemporary media culture

    Open AccessJoke Hermes, Annette HillARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2020Cited by: 2References: 2

    This is the introduction to a special issue on media and transgression, one of early cultural studies’ key terms. It inquires into the uses of transgression as a critical concept to query contemporary media culture which is discussed in six case studies: on political satire, Mukbang, cult drama, the policing of film piracy, media scandals, and online trolls. Transgression points to the energy that fuels the media ecology – from content and conten…

  • Provocative engagement: Documentary audiences and performances in The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

    Open AccessAnnette Hill, Tina Askanius et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2019Cited by: 1References: 2

    Through an analysis of The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), this article explores the idea of provocative engagement as a way of extending our understanding of the affective dimensions of documentary and its role in civic engagement. The study draws on qualitative research, based on interviews with the filmmaker, and interviews with 52 viewers in Denmark, Sweden, Japan and Colombia. This data is used to explore the idea of su…

  • Popular Culture Forms: Reality TV

    Open AccessAnnette HillOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2019

    Reality TV is a container for a range of diverse programs, series, formats, and events in which elements of documentary, talent shows, gameshows, talkshows, soap operas, melodramas, and sports mix together to produce subgenres. Reality TV can be broadly defined into two intergeneric spaces that draw on various subvariants of other genres across fact, drama, and entertainment; these definitions include the “world space” of reality TV set in real‐w…

  • Live reality television: Care structures within the production and reception of talent shows

    Open AccessAnnette Hill, Tina Askanius et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Television…2019Cited by: 1References: 7

    This article focuses on production and reception practices for live reality television using critical theory and empirical research to question how producers and audiences co-create and limit live experiences. The concept of care structures is used to make visible hidden labour in the creation of mood, in particular audiences as participants in the management of live experiences. In the case of Got to Dance, there was a play off between the value…

  • Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism

    Annette Hill, Mara Einstein et al.BOOKReligion and Reality TV2018

  • Media audiences and reception studies

    Annette HillCHAPTERReception Studies and Audiovisual…2018

    Media audiences and reception studies is a shifting area of research in terms of theories and concepts, methodologies and methods. Audiences are on the move, and ways of understanding these transitions involves multi-faceted, pragmatic approaches to varieties of audience experiences in context, including contexts of distribution and media flows, genres and communicative form, and identities and everyday life. The range of methodologies and method…

  • Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television

    Annette HillBOOKMedia Experiences2018

  • Transnational Audiences: Media Reception on a Global Scale

    Open AccessAnnette HillARTICLEEuropean Journal of Communication2017

  • Reality TV Engagement: Producer and Audience Relations for Reality Talent Shows

    Open AccessAnnette HillARTICLEMedia Industries2017Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article focuses on media engagement within the reality television industry. It draws on qualitative research of production practices and audience participation in live reality events to explore the multiple meanings of engagement as a series of relationships between creative and executive producers, broadcasters, performers, and audiences. A key question concerns how do producers and audiences cocreate, shape, and limit engagement with reali…

  • Popular Culture Forms: Culture and Icons

    Open AccessGeorge Ritzer, C Rojek et al.OTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Sociologists have addressed a wide range of topics under the heading of popular culture. In fact, there are far too many to cover adequately in this encyclopedia. Thus, a decision was made to give at least a sense of this literature by sampling some of the key topics examined by sociologists and offering an indication of the way in which they have been covered. A variety of forms of popular culture are considered: the beach, hip‐hop, jazz, P2P, r…

  • Push–Pull Dynamics: Producer and Audience Practices for Television Drama Format The Bridge

    Open AccessAnnette HillARTICLETelevision & New Media2016Cited by: 1References: 4

    This article explores push–pull dynamics in television drama production and reception. Push–pull dynamics are understood as complicated power relations in the transactions between television industries and audiences. The research is underpinned by qualitative data, drawing on more than 170 participants in interviews, focus groups, and participant observations, with producers and audiences from Northern Europe and North and South America. A case s…

  • Passion: Introduction to Special Issue

    Open AccessAnnette Hill, Joke HermesARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2016

    There is a dark side to passion: a black heart, something malicious and not to be trusted. This Special Issue1 looks at the tensions between the positive and particularly the negative connotations of passion. This is the kind of passion where an adoring fan can become a menacing stalker. Or a ritual December celebration turns into a contested site of race relations. Often, when we think of media and passion, the first things that come to mind con…