Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study media at university.
Session time: Thursday 24 April, 10.10-10.55
It has been argued by some that the notion of audience – in terms of a mass of viewers, listeners or readers – needs to be fundamentally rethought. Changes in media technologies and the opportunities these present to their users means that we can no longer think in terms of ‘passive’ consumers of media texts.
Yet while there can be no question that recent times have indeed witnessed noteworthy changes in people’s varied engagement with media, we might nonetheless wonder whether this necessitates a decisive break with the ways ‘audience studies’ approaches its varied objects of study.
In this interactive session, Dr Mark Rimmer encourages participants to reflect on their own engagements with media and consider the enduring usefulness of audience studies’ conceptual vocabulary for grappling with the complexity and multidimensionality of twenty-first-century media audiencehood.
Suitable for: Year 12 & 13 students (and equivalent) studying, or with a possible interest in studying, Media and related disciplines. Student groups as well as students and teachers joining individually are very welcome.
For details and to book your place, visit: https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/media-sociology-end-of-audience-with-dr-mark-rimmer-from-university-of-east-anglia/