Andy Ruddock
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Andy Ruddock is a media studies
author and academic, currently based at Monash University
, Australia. He has previously taught in the US, the UK and New Zealand.
He has written two critical introductions in the field of audience studies, Understanding Audiences (2001) and Investigating Audiences (2007). He has published on alcohol and anti-social behaviour, political celebrity, sport and racism and the mediation of foreign policy. Much of his work concentrates on overcoming the divisions between qualitative and quantitative research methods that is proliferate in media studies.
Media studies
Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...
author and academic, currently based at Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
, Australia. He has previously taught in the US, the UK and New Zealand.
He has written two critical introductions in the field of audience studies, Understanding Audiences (2001) and Investigating Audiences (2007). He has published on alcohol and anti-social behaviour, political celebrity, sport and racism and the mediation of foreign policy. Much of his work concentrates on overcoming the divisions between qualitative and quantitative research methods that is proliferate in media studies.
External links
- Andy Ruddock page at Monash University.