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Get to the heart of fake news and brush up on your media literacy
skills as you explore the media landscape of today, and where it
all came from, using the current and relevant research found in
Media & Culture.
This book draws on almost five decades of entrepreneurial
experience and innovation and offers a broad perspective on ethical
tech startups. It approaches the subject on two fronts by
considering both the business of ethical technology as well as the
challenges of tech startups with an imperative to behave ethically.
The book provides readers with the tools to ethically frame and
construct their startup ventures whether or not their core business
is rooted in a technology meant to serve a social good.
Incorporating ethical business practices both in knowledge and
action, this book leads readers through the process of shaping an
incipient startup idea all the way through the long-term operating
stages. Using real-world case studies, the book explores key
factors in successfully planning, framing, launching, leading,
managing, and financing startups. This book is essential reading
for researchers, academics, and students as well as industry
professionals who have an idea or technology they want to get out
into the world. Whether readers are seasoned in the field,
employees of existing startups looking for better approaches, or
new idealistic innovators who want to learn where to start, this
guidebook explains and explores the road to launching the next
great ethical tech startup.
"A highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural
anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay
identity." --Michael DeAngelis, DePaul University "Original and
compelling . . . an example of the best kind of television
scholarship. Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." --Sasha
Torres, author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black
Civil Rights After years of relative silence on the subject of
homosexuality, television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in
gay material. Sitcoms like Friends, Seinfeld, Ellen, and Will &
Grace, and dramas like Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210,
Homicide: Life on the Street, and The Commish added numerous gay
and lesbian characters, aired special gay-themed episodes, and
included references to homosexuality nearly every week. In Gay TV
and Straight America, Ron Becker draws on a wide range of political
and cultural indicators to explain this sudden upsurge of gay
material on prime-time network television. He argues that the
growing visibility of gay material both reflected and deepened
Straight America's anxieties about social fragmentation and the
politics of sexuality. In this cultural climate, gay material
became a highly charged but also highly valuable narrowcasting-age
tool for television executives looking to target a quality audience
of well educated, upscale adults interested in "edgy" programming.
Bringing together Supreme Court rulings, media coverage of gay
rights battles, debates about multiculturalism and political
correctness, analyses of numerous prime-time programs and much
more, Becker helps us understand just what gay TV reveals about
Straight America. In today's cultural climate where same-sex
marriage bans are passed with wide margins yet millions of viewers
tune in weekly to programs like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,
this book offers valuable insight on the complex condition of
America's sexual politics. Ron Becker is an assistant professor of
communications at Miami University, Ohio.
For over 35 years, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night "
has greeted late night TV viewers looking for the best in sketch
comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the
careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam
Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced
unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adapting
to changing times while staying true to its original vision of
performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues
ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance,
"Saturday Night Live" and American TV follows the history of this
36-time Emmy-winning show and its place in the shifting social and
media landscape of American television."
For over 35 years, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night "
has greeted late night TV viewers looking for the best in sketch
comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the
careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam
Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced
unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adapting
to changing times while staying true to its original vision of
performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues
ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance,
"Saturday Night Live" and American TV follows the history of this
36-time Emmy-winning show and its place in the shifting social and
media landscape of American television."
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