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

• Autore: Valdivia Angharad N
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (606 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetto topico: Mass media
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Media studies
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to media studies
• ISBN: 1-4051-6544-8; 1-78268-609-6; 1-280-28464-1; 9786610284641; 0-470-70389-X; 1-4051-2891-7; 0-470-99906-3; 1-4051-7195-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814477603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; ; 6.