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Interpretive Communities

Interpretive Communities is a theoretical construct in Reception Studies denoting a group of readers or audiences who share a common set of interpretive strategies and conventions that govern their understanding of textual meaning.

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Journalists as interpretive communities

Barbie Zelizer · Critical Studies in Mass Communication · 1993 · 834 citations

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Community as Interpretive Community: Rethinking the Journalist-Source Relationship

Dan Berkowitz, James V. TerKeurst · Journal of Communication · 1999 · 145 citations

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Media Audiences as Interpretive Communities

Thomas Rlindlof · Annals of the International Communication Association · 1988 · 127 citations

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Treaty Interpretation: The Authority of Interpretive Communities

Ian Johnstone · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1990 · 124 citations · Full text

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‘Toy Story’: The narrative world of entrepreneurship and the creation of interpretive communities

Denise Fletcher · Journal of Business Venturing · 2006 · 122 citations

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Authors

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  1. KB
    Klaus Bruhn Jensen

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    2 publications · 73 citations

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  2. SF
    Stanley Fish

    Duke University, United States

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  3. RR
    Robert Redfield

    University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States

    2 publications · 158 citations

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  4. SW
    Sarah W. Beck

    New York University, United States

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  5. AM
    Albert M. Selvin

    Verizon (United States), United States

    1 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

55

  1. Temple University

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    890 citations

  2. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    155 citations

  3. Temple College

    Temple, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    28 citations

  4. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  5. Governors State University

    University Park, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    57 citations

  6. Danish Film Institute

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    32 citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    48 citations

  8. Marymount University

    Arlington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    45 citations

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  1. Critical Studies in Mass Communication

    CSMC · 5 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Journal of Interpretation Research

    3 publications · 74 citations

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  3. Media Culture & Society

    3 publications · 230 citations

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  4. Perspectives

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  5. American Sociological Review

    ASR · 2 publications · 139 citations

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