Media and the politics of offence / Anne Graefer, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graefer, Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Right and left (Political science).

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Media and the politics of offense

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called 'right to offend' is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a 'political correctness gone mad' that stifles 'free speech'. Against the backdrop of these current developments, this book aims to generate a productive dialogue among scholars working in a variety of intellectual disciplines, geographical locations and methodological traditions. The contributors share a concern about the complex and ambiguous nature of offence as well as about the different ways in which this so-called 'negative affect' comes to matter in our everyday and socio-political lives. Through a series of instructive case studies of recent media provocations, the authors illustrate how being offended is more than an individual feeling and is, instead, closely tied to political structures and power relations.

Contents:

Introduction to media and the politcs of offence

Part I. Offence, politics and protest

Political offensiveness in the mediated public sphere: the performative play of alignments

Creating an emotional community: the negotiation of anger and resistance to Donald Trump

Unruly women and Carnivalesque counter-control: offensive humor in mediated social protest

Changing visual politics in South Africa: old and new modes of exclusion, protest and offence

Part II. Offence, representation and popular culture

Other bodies within us: shock, affect and reality television audiences

'Period sex': Crazy ex-girlfriend and the feminist politics of offence

Fans at work: offence as motivation for critical vidding

Part III. Offence, media ethics and regulation

Blocked access: when pornographers take offence

Regulatory expectations of offended audiences: the citizen interest in audience discourse

Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates

Gruesome images in the contemporary Israeli mediated public sphere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030175733

3030175731

OCLC:

1110436306