Media Audiences

I am interested in all aspects of media audiences, focusing on people's interpretative engagement with different media genres, as discussed in Making Sense of Television (2nd ed., Routledge, 1998) and in Talk on Television (with Peter Lunt; Routledge, 1994). For selected online articles, see:

• Livingstone, S. (1990) Interpreting television narrative: How viewers see a story. Journal of Communication, 40(1), 72-82.
• Livingstone, S. (1991) Audience reception: The role of the viewer in retelling romantic drama. In Mass Media and Society, J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (Eds.), London: Edward Arnold. First ed.
• Livingstone, S. (1992) The resourceful reader: Interpreting television characters and narratives. Communication Yearbook, 15, 58-90.
• Livingstone, S. (1993) The rise and fall of audience research: an old story with a new ending. Journal of Communication, 43(4), 5-12.
• Livingstone, S. (1998) Relationships between media and audiences: Prospects for future audience reception studies. In Liebes, T., and Curran, J. (Eds.), Media, Ritual and Identity: Essays in Honor of Elihu Katz. London: Routledge.
• Reiner, R., and Livingstone, S. (1997) Discipline or desubordination? Changing media images of crime. End of Award Report to the ESRC.
• Livingstone, S. (1998) Audience research at the crossroads: the 'implied audience' in media and cultural theory. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 1(2), 193-217.
• Livingstone, S. (1999) New media, new audiences? New Media & Society, 1(1), 59-66.
• Livingstone, S. (2000) Television and the active audience. In D. Fleming (Ed.), Formations: A 21st Century Media Studies Textbook (175-193). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Livingstone, S., Allen, J., and Reiner, R. (2001) The audience for crime media 1946-91: A historical approach to reception studies. Communication Review, 4(2): 165-192.
• Livingstone, S. (2003) The changing nature of audiences: From the mass audience to the interactive media user. In A. Valdivia (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Media Research (337-359). Oxford: Blackwell. Second ed. (2006).
• Livingstone, S. (2004) The challenge of changing audiences: or, what is the audience researcher to do in the internet age? European Journal of Communication, 19(1), 75-86.
• Livingstone, S. (2006) On the influence of 'Personal Influence' on the study of audiences. In P. Simonson (Ed.), Politics, social networks, and the history of mass communications research: Re-reading Personal Influence. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608: 233-250.
• Lievrouw, L., and Livingstone, S. (2006) Introduction to the updated student edition. In Lievrouw, L., & Livingstone, S. (Eds), Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences (1-14). Fully revised student edition. London: Sage.
• Press, A., and Livingstone, S. (2006) Taking audience research into the age of new media: Old problems and new challenges. In M. White and J. Schwoch (Eds.), The Question of Method in Cultural Studies (175-200). Oxford: Blackwell.
• Livingstone, S. (2007) On the material and the symbolic: Silverstone's double articulation of research traditions in new media studies. New Media & Society, 9(1): 16-24.
• Livingstone, S. (2007) Audiences and interpretations. e-Compós, vol. 10. At http://www.compos.org.br/files/01_Livingstone.pdf
• Livingstone, S. (2009) On the mediation of everything. ICA Presidential address 2008. Journal of Communication, 59(1), 1-18.