Reception Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18935709 |
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| Authors | Sonia Livingstone (0000-0002-3248-9862, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosr031.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4235336821 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Reception studies derives primarily from the application of literary theories of textual interpretation to the everyday activities of mass media audiences. To understand the interpretive work actively undertaken by viewers or users of media, as part of the circuit of culture, reception studies integrate semiotic and sociological theories so as to situate the viewer between text and context. Thus, drawing on ideas from the interpretation of the literary texts of high culture, reception studies argues that popular culture and mass media texts must also be made sense of by their audiences. To do so, two forms of resources, or determinations, shape the meaning that results – first, the codes of the text, along with the conventions of its genre and the affordances of the technology; and second, the norms, values, and practices of the viewers’ domestic, community, and wider sociocultural contexts
Advertising · Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Mass media · Media studies · Popular culture · Reception theory · Semiotics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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