Today’s consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce, and distribute media content. The development and overlap of television, the internet, and other media technologies is fragmenting and empowering media audiences more than ever. Building on his award-winning book, Audience Economics, Philip M. Napoli maps the landscape of our current media environment and describes its challenge to traditional conceptions of the audience.
He examines the redefinition of the industry-audience relationship by technologies that have moved the audience marketplace beyond traditional metrics. Media providers, advertisers, and audience measurement firms now deploy more sophisticated tools to gather and analyze audience information, focusing on factors rarely considered before, such as appreciation, recall, engagement, and behavior. Napoli explores the interplay between political and economic interests in the audience marketplace and their effect on audience evolution. He recounts the battles waged between stakeholders over the assessment of media audiences and their efforts to restrict the functionality of new technologies. As Napoli makes clear, the very meaning of the media audience continues to evolve in response to changing technological, economic, and political conditions.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Contextualizing Audience Evolution
2. The Transformation of Media Consumption
3. The Transformation of Audience Information Systems
4. Contesting Audiences
5. The Implications of Audience Evolution
Notes
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Philip M. Napoli is a professor in the Graduate School of Business at Fordham University and director of the Donald Mc Gannon Communication Research Center. He is the author of
Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace, which won the Robert Picard Award for Best Book in Media Management and Economics, and
Foundations of Communication Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media.
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