Each new medium (from print to television) has introduced a series of ratings technologies which, predominantly, quantifies the audience as passive commodity, i.e., as a number which is “delivered” by the broadcasters and “bought” by the advertisers. New electronic media demand a representation of audience that breaks with the traditional audience-as-commodity representation. Contemporary telev...

Based on the analysis of articles published in theater periodicals Holy Roman Empire, thisstudy explores enlightened cultural and symbolic geographies as reflected late eighteenth-centuryGerman theatrical press. Larry Wolff has shown that western travelers tend to locate borders civilizedEurope Habsburg lands situated east Vienna, namely Galicia Hungary. If periodicalsand travel memoirs by shar...