(New) Audience Practices
3 and 4 April, 2014
Catholic University of Portugal - Lisbon
NICK COULDRY
Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and was previously Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author or editor of eleven books including Ethics of Media (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), Media, Society, World (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). He has led funded research on citizens ‘public connection’ (http://publicconnection.org.uk/) and on story exchange in community engagement (http://www.firm-innovation.net/portfolio-of-projects/storycircle/).
Photo: ©Nigel Stead
ANNETTE HILL
Annette Hill is a Professor of Media at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, UK. Her research focuses on audiences, with interests in media experiences, everyday life, genres and cultures of viewing. Her most recent book isParanormal Media (Routledge 2011). Other books include Restyling Factual TV (2007), Reality TV (2005), TV Living: (with David Gauntlett 1999), and Shocking Entertainment (1997). The next books are Reality TV: Key Ideas (Routledge 2014) and Media Experiences (Routledge 2016).
