Audience Economics - Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-12653-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Focusing on the electronic media -- television, radio, and the Internet -- Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers. Philip M. Napoli presents original research in order to answer several key questions: ? How are audiences manufactured, valued, and sold? ? How do advertisers and media firms predict the behavior of audiences?? How has the process of measuring audiences evolved over time?? How and why do advertisers assign different values to segments of the media audience?? How does audience economics shape media content?Examining the relationship between the four principal actors in the audience marketplace -- advertisers, media firms, consumers, and audience measurement firms -- Napoli explains the ways in which they interact with and mutually depend on each other. He also analyzes recent developments, such as the introduction of local people meters by Nielsen Media Research and the establishment and evolution of audience measurement systems for the Internet. A valuable resource for academics, students, policymakers, and media professionals, Audience Economics keeps pace with the rapid changes in media and audience-measurement technologies in order to provide a thorough understanding of the unique dynamics of the audience marketplace today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Napoli, Philip M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Werbeindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Audience MarketplaceThe Predicted Audience - Measured Audience RelationshipThe Measured Audience - Actual Audience RelationshipAudience ValuationNew Technologies and the Audience ProductThe Future of the Audience Marketplace

Über Autor(innen)

Philip M. Napoli is an assistant professor of communications and media management in the graduate school of business at Fordham University. He is the author of Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media.