Focusing on the television audience, and the television industry's search for viewing figures, the author of this treatise identifies differences and similarities in the approaches of American commercial TV and European public service broadcasting, particularly in the field of ratings research.[...]
In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands[...]