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Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives

Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES BOOK REVIEW Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives,by Bridget Griffen-Foley, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020, xiii + 167 pp., €54.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783030546366 Media historian Bridget Griffen-Foley’s most recent monograph traces the archival remnants from the 1920s to the 1990s of Australian broadcast media audiences. This ambitious project, covering radio listenership and television viewership, might at first appear unwieldy, yet Griffen-Foley has carefully assembled a series of “perspectives” (1) where traces of media audiences’ fandom, complaints, club membership and involvement in television and radio programming offer a rich picture of how “ordinary” Australians interacted with broadcast media throughout the 20th century. Approaches to studying media audiences have expanded greatly since the 1990s. Scholars have used historical ratings and survey data, oral history, ethnography and a host of approaches from the social sciences to expand on the once dominant field of media effects research. Here, Griffen-Foley has delved into available archives and used “fine-grained empirical research” (3) to assemble “a series of perspectives on aspects of the broadcasting experience” (3). This is an archival history that operates as an entry into the complex archives of the Australian government’s broadcasting regulator, the Australian Broadcasting Corpor- ation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Australian Studies Taylor & Francis

Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives

Harvey, Kyle
Journal of Australian Studies , Volume 47 (2): 2 – Apr 3, 2023
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Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives

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JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES BOOK REVIEW Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives,by Bridget Griffen-Foley, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020, xiii + 167 pp., €54.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783030546366 Media historian Bridget Griffen-Foley’s most recent monograph traces the archival remnants from the 1920s to the 1990s of Australian broadcast media audiences. This ambitious project, covering radio listenership and television viewership, might...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2023 Kyle Harvey
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1835-6419
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1444-3058
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10.1080/14443058.2023.2170771
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JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES BOOK REVIEW Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives,by Bridget Griffen-Foley, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020, xiii + 167 pp., €54.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783030546366 Media historian Bridget Griffen-Foley’s most recent monograph traces the archival remnants from the 1920s to the 1990s of Australian broadcast media audiences. This ambitious project, covering radio listenership and television viewership, might at first appear unwieldy, yet Griffen-Foley has carefully assembled a series of “perspectives” (1) where traces of media audiences’ fandom, complaints, club membership and involvement in television and radio programming offer a rich picture of how “ordinary” Australians interacted with broadcast media throughout the 20th century. Approaches to studying media audiences have expanded greatly since the 1990s. Scholars have used historical ratings and survey data, oral history, ethnography and a host of approaches from the social sciences to expand on the once dominant field of media effects research. Here, Griffen-Foley has delved into available archives and used “fine-grained empirical research” (3) to assemble “a series of perspectives on aspects of the broadcasting experience” (3). This is an archival history that operates as an entry into the complex archives of the Australian government’s broadcasting regulator, the Australian Broadcasting Corpor- ation

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