Media studies : a reader / edited by Sue Thornham, Caroline Bassett and Paul Marris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thornham, Sue, editor.

Bassett, Caroline, editor.

Marris, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Mass Media.

Communication in mass media.

Medical Subjects:

Mass Media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (913 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential statements from writers such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, whose work was central to forming the field. It also includes wide ranging work on contemporary media formations from a stellar collection of diverse theorists, including Annabelle Sreberny, Paul Gilroy, Charlotte Brunsden, Angela McRobbie, Asu Askoy and Kevin Robins, Micheal Bull, and Nick Couldry, to name only a very few of those included. Finally, the Reader looks to the future, exploring new media formations and their significance, through the work of Mark Andrejevic, Lev Manovich, Jonathan Sterne and others.The sixty-five readings are divided into two main parts: 'Studying the Media' begins with a section on key theoretical perspectives and follows this with five sections opening up questions around the Public Sphere, Representation, Feminism and Gender, Audiences, and Everyday Life respectively. The second part, 'Case Studies', brings together concrete examples of how theoretical approaches can be realised through a series of case studies, covering for instance, reality TV, news, advertising, and new media.With easy-to-follow introductions and guides to further reading accompanying each section, Media Studies: A Reader equips the student to engage with key debates in the field.This new edition updates all sections with a rich selection of contemporary writing complementing re-chosen media 'classics'. In addition: further Reading lists have been comprehensively updated; introductory essays to each section have been expanded and re-written; internal layouts have been completely redesigned for ease of use.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

General Introduction

PART ONE: STUDYING THE MEDIA

SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONS

Introduction

1 Culture Industry Reconsidered

2 The Medium is the Message

3 Encoding/Decoding

4 The Power of the Image

5 The Public Sphere

6 The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media

7 Truth and Power

8 The Practice of Everyday Life

9 Postscript on the Societies of Control

10 Some Properties of Fields

Further Reading

Section 2: The Media and the Public Sphere

11 Introduction to Orientalism

12 Mass Culture as Woman: Modernisms Other

13 The Globalization of Communication

14 An Introduction to the Information Age

15 Not Only, But Also: Mixedness and Media

Section 3: Representation

3. 1 Textual Structures

16 Programming as Sequence or Flow

17 Broadcast TV Narration

18 The Role of Stereotypes

19 Genre, Representation and Soap Opera

20 Rhetoric, Play, Performance

21 Database as a Symbolic Form

3. 2 The Politics of Representation

22 Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy

23 New Ethnicities

24 Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust

25 Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic

26 Queering Home or Domesticating Deviance? Interrogating Gay Domesticity Through Lifestyle Television

3. 3 Feminist Readings

27 Survival Skills and Daydreams

28 Reading the Slender Body

29 The Role of Soap Opera in the Development of Feminist Television Scholarship

30 Post-Feminism and Popular Culture

31 Playing the Game: Young Girls Performing Femininity in Video Game Play

Section 4: Audiences

4. 1 Effects Debates

32 On the Social Effects of Television

33 The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective

34 A Sociology of Media Power: Key Issues in Audience Reception Research

35 From Bad Research to Good A Guide for the Perplexed

4. 2 The Politics of Reading

36 Reading the Romance

37 Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies

38 The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators

39 Theres Something Queer Here

40 Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes

Section 5: Media and Everyday Life

41 Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home

42 Media, Meaning and Everyday Life

43 Whats Home Got to Do with It? Contradictory Dynamics in the Domestication of Technology and the Dislocation of Domesticity

44 No Dead Air! The iPod and the Culture of Mobile Listening

PART TWO: CASE STUDIES

Section 6: Reality Television

45 Reality TV and Social Perversion

46 The Rise of Reality TV

47 Public and Private Bodies

48 Celebrity, Social Mobility and the Future of Reality TV

49 Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualized Norms of Televisions Reality Games

Section 7: News and Documentary

50 News Values and News Production

The Social Production of News

52 Politicizing the Personal: Womens Voices in British Television Documentaries

53 News Media and the Globalization of the Public Sphere

54 Bad News from Israel

55 Picturizing Science: The Science Documentary as Multimedia Spectacle

Section 8: Advertising and Promotional Culture

56 Advertising: The Magic System

57 Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the New Man

58 Soft-soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising

59 The Promotional Condition of Contemporary Culture

60 Social Communication in Advertising

Section 9: New Technologies, New Media?

61 Cyberspace and the World we Live in

62 The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure

63 The MP3 as Cultural Artifact

64 Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research

65 Cultural Studies and New Media

Acknowledgements

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474473231

1474473237

OCLC:

1408682681