Working watching: The creative and cultural labor of the media audience

Social Semiotics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 343-360

  Shimpach, Shawn ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience studies; Cultural labor; Media audience; Social subject; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247657087     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330500310145     Document Type: Article

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