Resources for work on media audiences

These are links to sites that give some idea of how the central ideas associated with Media Audiences have developed. They might be heavy going for A Level students, but are worth exploring.

Wikipedia on 'Audience Studies'

David Morley on 'Audience Research' from the Museum of Broadcasting site

David Gauntlett on the problems with the 'effects model'

Daniel Chandler's page on Stuart Hall and 'encoding/decoding'

Mick Underwood's web pages (Cultsock) on 'media effects'

Glasgow University Mass Media Unit (formerly Glasgow University Media Group)

Interesting blog on media literacy, fandom etc.

Henry Jenkins on 'media consumption'

The 'Mediaknowall' site (more A Level friendly) on the 'violence debate'