Abstract:This entry charts audience research models of mass communication scholarship from the 1940s to the 1980s. It describes how these models conceptualized the mass audience in terms of gender and class and outlines their foundational assumptions about women audiences and women's genres. The account is focused through the example of the serial drama or “soap opera.”
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