The Audience and Its Landscape

This study offers a reassesment of the ＂audience＂. It acknowledges, in the face of conventional ＂discourse analysis＂, the contextual features of discourse, to produce complex and textured understanding of the concept of audience.

James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. James Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ellen Wartella is dean and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication.