The Handbook of Media Audiences

This much needed volume provides the most up-to-date, cutting edge research and scholarship on one of the most researched but still little understood media concepts, that of 'the audience'. Virginia Nightingale has done an excellent job in bringing together a diverse body of contributors who write from various perspectives across medias and theories of audience. Essayists point to the ways in which our relationships with media are entwined with how we think about ourselves as citizens and architects of our own here and now, no longer simply in thrall to other people's versions of the world but creating our own.
- Karen Ross, University of Liverpool

At a time when our relations to media are in flux and established notions of audiences under question, this volume offers an invaluable guide to the state of our present knowledge, the questions we now need to ask, and the concepts and methods we can use to tackle them. Admirably comprehensive and with original contributions from leading scholars in the field this is a volume that everyone should have on their shelf.
- Graham Murdock, Loughborough Univeristy