, with a few technical changes (particularly on the recording side) How can the definition of the audience take these changes into account when they have even more of an impact on practices and usage, for example with connected television? Looking at the way in which actors endeavour to reformulate a quantitative definition of audiences would provide historians with paths of inquiry that seamlessly combine professional uses and televiewers' practices

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