Audience-citizens : the media, public knowledge and interpretive practice - Harindranath, Ramaswami, 1959- (New Delhi : Sage Publications India, 2009)
Introduction : media audiences, public knowledge and democracy -- Audiences and socio-cultural contexts -- Understanding 'understanding' : the hermeneutics of audience reception -- Exploring 'context' -- Documentary meanings and public knowledge -- Methodological reflections on 'cross-cultural' audience research -- Non-fiction and audience evaluations -- Ethnicity, multiculturalism and interpretive practice -- Making connections : media audiences and cultural citizenship -- Concluding comments.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-267) and index.
Keywords: Mass media -- Political aspects -- India; Mass media -- Social aspects -- India; Democracy -- India; India -- Politics and government