November 2003
Editorial
Barker, Martin (Editor) & Ernest Mathijs (Chair of Editorial Board). Introduction: Maintaining a Sense of Wonder
The Conduct of Exploratory Research into the Social Origins of Broadcasting Audiences
Blumler, Jay G., Denis McQuail & J. R. Brown. The Conduct of Exploratory Research into the Social Origins of Broadcasting Audiences. Originally written in 1970/71.
This paper describes research conducted by the then Television Research Unit at the University of Leeds in 1969 and 1970. It was composed as a report to the Social Science Research Council, which funded the work.
Material from this research subsequently appeared in a paper: ‘The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective’, by Denis McQuail, Jay G Blumler & J R Brown, in Denis McQuail (Ed.): Sociology of Mass Communications. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972.
Foreword. Why we are publishing this article – Martin Barker (Editor)
Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaching the Study of Audience Gratifications
Chapter 2. The Dales: A ‘Uses and Gratifications’ Investigation of a Daytime Radio Serial
Chapter 3. The Second Survey: Television Quiz Programmes and Coronation Street
Chapter 4. The Third Survey and its Typological Implications: Television News, The Saint, and Callan
The St Louis Court Brief. Debating audience ‘effects’ in public
No. 02-3010, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Brief Amici Curiae of Thirty-three Media Scholars* in Interactive Digital Software Association, et al. v. St. Louis County, et al.
On Appeal From a Judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division
September 24, 2002
Part 1 *Scholars joining the Brief
Part 3 Interests of the Amici Curiae & Summary of the Argument
- I: Research on violent video games has not demonstrated real-world harm
- II: Media-effects research overall has not demonstrated that violent entertainment causes real-world harm
- Most studies have negative results
- Occasional positive results do not establish real-world harm
- III: The functions of fantasy violence
- Conclusion
Part 6 Appendix: Bibliographies of the Amici
Kline, Stephen. Media Effects: Redux or Reductive? – A Reply to the St Louis Court Brief
Reviews
Mark Jancovich & Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings. The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption. BFI Publishing (2003). ISBN 0-85170-943-5 (hbk), 0-85170-942-7 (pbk), pp. vi + 281
Kim Schrøder, Kirsten Drotner, Stephen Kline & Catherine Murray. Researching Audiences. London, Arnold (2003). ISBN 0-340-76275-6 (hbk), 0-340-76274-8 (pbk), pp. vii + 422