Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine

This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and television practices. It provides a fascinating account of the production of figures on which the whole world of popular culture depends.

Tirza Aidar, University of Campinas, Brazil Mark Balnaves, University of Newcastle, Australia Katrien Berte, Centre for Information on the Media (CIM), the Belgian Joint Industry Committee Jakob Bjur, TNS-SIFO, Sweden Jérôme Bourdon, Tel Aviv University, Israel Heloisa Buarque de Almeida, University of São Paulo, Brazil Santanu Chakrabarti, Oxfam GB Sergey Davydov, National Research University, Russia Tom Evens, Ghent University, Belgium Esther Hamburger, University of São Paulo, Brazil Elena Johansson, Södertörn University, Sweden Cécile Méadel, Mines ParisTech, France Ann-Marie Murray, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Philip M. Napoli, Rutgers University, USA Philip Savage, McMaster University, Canada Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy Stefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Alexandre Sévigny, MacMaster University, Canada Susanne Vollberg, Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany