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Media, Ritual and Identityby Tamar Liebes; James Curran
Routledge 1998; US$ 48.95Media, Ritual and Identity examines the role of the media in society; its complex influence on democratic processes and its participation in the construction and affirmation of different social identities. more...
Media Matrixby Barbara Creed
Allen & Unwin 2003; US$ 31.81From Sex and the City to discussions of sexuality and the self, Breillat's film Romance to Harlequin romances, crisis TV to cyberporn, celebrity to censorship, Barbara Creed explores the effect of today's global media on contemporary ideas and experiences of sex, screen, identity and representation. From the author of The Monstrous Feminine. more...
Why America?s Top Pundits Are Wrongby Catherine Besteman; Hugh Gusterson
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia,... more...
Media Sexby Barrie Gunter
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 55.95This title examines the representation, impact and issues relating to the control and regulation of sex in the media. It covers work that has been conducted around the world on the depiction of sex in the mainstream mass media, especially the audio-visual media of film, television and video. more...
Ordinary Lifestylesby David Bell; Joanne Hollows
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 43.98Lifestyle media ¿ books, magazines, websites, radio and television shows that focus on topics such as cookery, gardening, travel and home improvement ¿ have witnessed an explosion in recent years. Ordinary Lifestyles explores how popular media texts bring ideas about taste and fashion to consumers, helping audiences to fashion their lifestyles as well as defining what constitutes an appropriate lifestyle for particular social groups. Contemporary examples are used throughout, including Martha Stewart, House Doctor, What Not to Wear, You Are What You Eat, Country Living and brochures for gay and lesbian holiday promotions. The contributors show that watching make-over television or cooking from a celebrity chef¿s book are significant cultural... more...
Understanding Media Usersby Tony Wilson
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 104.95Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice focuses on the blurred concept of the “ active audience” at the core of media studies. examines the relationship between media and audiences by one of the world’s leading media scholars provides a history of media effects’ and an overview of the current analytical approaches that constitute media reception theory charts some of the most important interfaces of media reception and interaction - TV, film, the Internet, advertising, journalism, and tourism studies concludes with additional insights into the future of media reception in a global age more...
Women, Men and Newsby Paula Poindexter; Sharon Meraz; Amy Schmitz Weiss
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 45.95This multi-authored scholarly volume explores the divide between men and women in their consumption of news media, looking at how the sexes read and use news, historically and currently, how they use technology to access their news, and how today's news pertains to and is used by women. The volume also addresses diversity issues among women's use of news, considering racial, ethnic, international and feminist perspectives. The volume is intended to help readers understand adult news use behavior--a critical and timely issue considering the state of newspapers and television news in today's multi-media news environment. more...
Rethinking the Media Audienceby Pertti Alasuutari
Sage Publications Ltd. 1999; US$ 51.95Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life. Only this new agenda, they suggest, can adequately account for our ubiquitous, highly reflexive, participation in modern media culture. Offering a thorough survey of audience research this volume also gives a provocative pointer to future directions and trends in reception research and qualitative analysis. more...
African Media and the Digital Public Sphereby O. Mudhai; W. Tettey; F. Banda
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups. more...
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