This Palgrave Pivot considers how Australian audiences have consumed and engaged with broadcast media over the last century. It focuses on radio since the 1920s and television since the 1950s, covering both public and commercial broadcasters. Moving away from a traditional focus on what the media has produced by way of texts and images, this book considers how consumers have dealt with the emergence of new media technologies, the ways in which radio and television content has been received, and the off-air role of radio and television stations and programs in the lives of radio listeners and television viewers. This book complements international histories of media audiences, as well as feeding into the growing field of audience studies, and the even newer field of fan studies.weiterlesen