This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age.

Helen Wood is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK. She has published widely on gender, television, class and audiences, including the books Talking with Television (2009) and with Beverley Skeggs Reacting to Reality Television (2012). She was formerly a long-serving editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Introduction 1. Audience 2. Anchor 3. Mean 4. Feel 5. Work 6. The Digital Circuit