| Description |
xiii, 590 pages ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 6 |
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Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 6
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| Contents |
Introduction / Angharad N. Valdivia -- 1. Feminist Media Perspectives / Margaret Gallagher -- 2. New Horizons for Communication Theory in the New Media Age / Denis McQuail -- 3. From Modernization to Participation: The Past and Future of Development Communication in Media Studies / Robert Huesca -- 4. Tensions between Popular and Alternative Music: R.E.M. as an Artist-Intellectual / Robert Sloane -- 5. Approaches to Media History / John Nerone -- 6. Ethical Issues in Media Production / Sharon L. Bracci -- 7. Digital Capitalism: A Status Report on the Corporate Commonwealth of Information / Dan Schiller -- 8. Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, Institutions / D. Charles Whitney and James S. Ettema -- 9. From the Playboy to the Hustler: Class, Race, and the Marketing of Masculinity / Gail Dines and Elizabeth R. Perea -- 10. Selling Survivor: The Use of TV News to Promote Commercial Entertainment / Matthew P. McAllister -- 11. Constructing Youth: Media, Youth, and the Politics of Representation / Sharon R. Mazzarella -- 12. The Less Space We Take, the More Powerful We'll Be: How Advertising Uses Gender to Invert Signs of Empowerment and Social Equality / Vickie Rutledge Shields -- 13. Constructing a New Model of Ethnic Media: Image-Saturated Latina Magazines as Touchstones / Melissa A. Johnson -- 14. Out of India: Fashion Culture and the Marketing of Ethnic Style / Sujata Moorti -- 15. Resuscitating Feminist Audience Studies: Revisiting the Politics of Representation and Resistance / Radhika E. Parameswaran -- 16. The Changing Nature of Audiences: From the Mass Audience to the Interactive Media User / Sonia Livingstone -- 17. The Cultural Revolution in Audience Research / Virginia Nightingale -- 18. Practicing Embodiment: Reality, Respect, and Issues of Gender in Media Reception / Joke Hermes -- 19. Salsa as Popular Culture: Ethnic Audiences Constructing an Identity / Angharad N. Valdivia -- 20. Race and Crime in the Media: Research from a Media Effects Perspective / Mary Beth Oliver -- 21. The Appeal and Impact of Media Sex and Violence / Jennings Bryant and Dorina Miron -- 22. The Role of Interactive Media in Children's Cognitive Development / Ellen A. Wartella, Barbara J. O'Keefe and Ronda M. Scantlin -- 23. The Impact of Stereotypical and Counter-Stereotypical News on Viewer Perceptions of Blacks and Latinos: An Exploratory Study / Michael C. Casas and Travis L. Dixon -- 24. Where We Should Go Next and Why We Probably Won't: An Entirely Idiosyncratic, Utopian, and Unashamedly Peppery Map for the Future / John D. H. Downing -- 25. All Consuming Identities: Race, Mass Media, and the Pedagogy of Resentment in the Age of Difference / Cameron McCarthy -- 26. Expanding the Definition of Media Activism / Carrie A. Rentschler -- 27. Realpolitik and Utopias of Universal Bonds: For a Critique of Technoglobalism / Armand Mattelart -- 28. Intellectual Property, Cultural Production, and the Location of Africa / Boatema Boateng |
| Summary |
A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Mass media.
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| Author |
Valdivia, Angharad N.
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Ebooks Corporation.
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| LC no. |
2002152791 |
| ISBN |
063122601X alkaline paper |
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