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RECEPTION STUDIES

How do audiences make sense of messages? How do they respond to the time and place in which messages are communicated? How does the situated media environment influence message reception and audiences' responses—and how do these, in turn, impact the larger discourses in which messages are embedded, reshape media and genres, and inspire new communication strategies?

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