VALDIVIA ANGHARAD N

A Companion to Media Studies

Herausgeber: Valdivia, Angharad N

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Produktbeschreibung

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. The result is a fascinating overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Leading essayists - from Denis McQuail, John Nerone, Margaret Gallagher, and Dan Schiller to Charles Whitney, James Ettema, Jennings Bryant, and Ellen Wartella - tackle a variety of concepts and controversies from qualitative and quantitative perspectives, and with specific attention to issues of globalization and difference. The Companion showcases some of the most exciting work currently underway on feminist media, media history, the future of theory, digital capitalism, power, agency, popular culture, race, and intellectual property, and is organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures. A Companion to Media Studies provides an accessible and comprehensive point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9781405141741
• ISBN-10: 1405141743
• Artikelnr.: 22107907

Autorenporträt

Angharad N. Valdivia is Research Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is editor of Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities (1995) and author of A Latina in the Land of Hollywood and Other Essays on Media Culture (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1
Angharad N. Valdivia

Part I Foundations

1 Feminist Media Perspectives 19
Margaret Gallagher

2 New Horizons for Communication Theory in the New Media Age40
Denis McQuail

3 From Modernization to Participation: The Past and Future ofDevelopment Communication in Media Studies 50
Robert Huesca

4 Tensions between Popular and Alternative Music: R.E.M. as anArtist-Intellectual 72
Robert Sloane

Part II Production

5 Approaches to Media History 93
John Nerone

6 Ethical Issues in Media Production 115
Sharon L. Bracci

7 Digital Capitalism: A Status Report on the CorporateCommonwealth of Information 137
Dan Schiller

8 Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, Institutions157
D. Charles Whitney and James S. Ettema

9 From the Playboy to the Hustler: Class, Race, and theMarketing of Masculinity 188
Gail Dines and Elizabeth R. Perea

Part III Media Content

10 Selling Survivor: The Use of TV News to Promote CommercialEntertainment 209
Matthew P. McAllister

11 Constructing Youth: Media, Youth, and the Politics ofRepresentation 227
Sharon R. Mazzarella

12 The Less Space We Take, the More Powerful We'll Be: HowAdvertising Uses Gender to Invert Signs of Empowerment and SocialEquality 247
Vickie Rutledge Shields

13 Constructing a New Model of Ethnic Media: Image-SaturatedLatina Magazines as Touchstones 272
Melissa A. Johnson

14 Out of India: Fashion Culture and the Marketing of EthnicStyle 293
Sujata Moorti

Part IV Media Audiences

15 Resuscitating Feminist Audience Studies: Revisiting thePolitics of Representation and Resistance 311
Radhika E. Parameswaran

16 The Changing Nature of Audiences: From the Mass Audience tothe Interactive Media User 337
Sonia Livingstone

17 The Cultural Revolution in Audience Research 360
Virginia Nightingale

18 Practicing Embodiment: Reality, Respect, and Issues of Genderin Media Reception 382
Joke Hermes

19 Salsa as Popular Culture: Ethnic Audiences Constructing anIdentity 399
Angharad N. Valdivia

Part V Effects

20 Race and Crime in the Media: Research from a Media EffectsPerspective 421
Mary Beth Oliver

21 The Appeal and Impact of Media Sex and Violence 437
Jennings Bryant and Dorina Miron

22 The Role of Interactive Media in Children's CognitiveDevelopment 461
Ellen A. Wartella, Barbara J. O'Keefe, and Ronda M.Scantlin

23 The Impact of Stereotypical and Counter-Stereotypical News onViewer Perceptions of Blacks and Latinos: An Exploratory Study480
Michael C. Casas and Travis L. Dixon

Part VI Futures

24 Where We Should Go Next and Why We Probably Won't: AnEntirely Idiosyncratic, Utopian, and Unashamedly Peppery Map forthe Future 495
John D. H. Downing

25 All Consuming Identities: Race, Mass Media, and the Pedagogyof Resentment in the Age of Difference 513
Cameron McCarthy

26 Expanding the Definition of Media Activism 529
Carrie A. Rentschler

27 Realpolitik and Utopias of Universal Bonds: For a Critique ofTechnoglobalism 548
Armand Mattelart translated from the French by SamiraHassa

28 Intellectual Property, Cultural Production, and the Locationof Africa 565
Boatema Boateng

Index 578

Rezensionen

"The present volume provides an overall perspective on the subjectand is thus an extremely valuable resource. ...Contributors aredistinguished scholars in their fields, who in addition toproviding fresh analyses include extensive notes andbibliographies. Summing Up: Essential. The best of the bestin a crowded field; upper-division undergraduates through facultyand professionals, including two-year technical students."CHOICE (of the hardcover edition)

"[the essays] are bright and engaging and will no doubtencourage thought, discussion, and debate amongst theirreaders." Reference Reviews

"An excellent resource, with many contributions promptinginsights and reflections beyond their subjectmatter."Journal of Contemporary History