A companion to media studies / edited by Angharad N. Valdivia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valdivia, Angharad N.

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 6.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (606 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Media studies

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by an international team to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Sch

Contents:

A Companion to Media Studies; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Foundations; 1 Feminist Media Perspectives; 2 New Horizons for Communication Theory in the New Media Age; 3 From Modernization to Participation: The Past and Future of Development Communication in Media Studies; 4 Tensions between Popular and Alternative Music: R.E.M. as an Artist-Intellectual; Part II Production; 5 Approaches to Media History; 6 Ethical Issues in Media Production; 7 Digital Capitalism: A Status Report on the Corporate Commonwealth of Information

8 Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, Institutions9 From the Playboy to the Hustler: Class, Race, and the Marketing of Masculinity; Part III Media Content; 10 Selling Survivor: The Use of TV News to Promote Commercial Entertainment; 11 Constructing Youth: Media, Youth, and the Politics of Representation; 12 The Less Space We Take, the More Powerful We'll Be: How Advertising Uses Gender to Invert Signs of Empowerment and Social Equality; 13 Constructing a New Model of Ethnic Media: Image-Saturated Latina Magazines as Touchstones

14 Out of India: Fashion Culture and the Marketing of Ethnic StylePart IV Media Audiences; 15 Resuscitating Feminist Audience Studies: Revisiting the Politics of Representation and Resistance; 16 The Changing Nature of Audiences: From the Mass Audience to the Interactive Media User; 17 The Cultural Revolution in Audience Research; 18 Practicing Embodiment: Reality, Respect, and Issues of Gender in Media Reception; 19 Salsa as Popular Culture: Ethnic Audiences Constructing an Identity; Part V Effects; 20 Race and Crime in the Media: Research from a Media Effects Perspective

21 The Appeal and Impact of Media Sex and Violence22 The Role of Interactive Media in Children's Cognitive Development; 23 The Impact of Stereotypical and Counter-Stereotypical News on Viewer Perceptions of Blacks and Latinos: An Exploratory Study; Part VI Futures; 24 Where We Should Go Next and Why We Probably Won't: An Entirely Idiosyncratic, Utopian, and Unashamedly Peppery Map for the Future; 25 All Consuming Identities: Race, Mass Media, and the Pedagogy of Resentment in the Age of Difference; 26 Expanding the Definition of Media Activism

27 Realpolitik and Utopias of Universal Bonds: For a Critique of Technoglobalism28 Intellectual Property, Cultural Production, and the Location of Africa; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610284641

9781405165440

1405165448

9781782686095

1782686096

9781280284649

1280284641

9780470703892

047070389X

9781405128919

1405128917

9780470999066

0470999063

9781405171953

1405171952

OCLC:

437065778