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This thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides a
comprehensive introduction to the various approaches to the field,
explaining why media messages matter, how media businesses prosper
and why media is integral to defining contemporary life. The text
is divided into three parts - Media texts and meanings; Producing
media; and Media and social contexts - exploring the ways in which
various media forms make meaning; are produced and regulated; and
how society, culture and history are defined by such forms.
Encouraging students to actively engage in media research and
analysis, each chapter seeks to guide readers through key questions
and ideas in order to empower them to develop their own
scholarship, expertise and investigations of the media worlds in
which we live. Fully updated to reflect the contemporary media
environment, the third edition includes new case studies covering
topics such as Brexit, podcasts, Love Island, Captain Marvel, Black
Lives Matter, Netflix, data politics, the Kardashians, President
Trump, 'fake news', the post-Covid world and perspectives on global
media forms. This is an essential introduction for undergraduate
and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies,
communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media and
popular culture.
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides a
comprehensive introduction to the various approaches to the field,
explaining why media messages matter, how media businesses prosper
and why media is integral to defining contemporary life. The text
is divided into three parts - Media texts and meanings; Producing
media; and Media and social contexts - exploring the ways in which
various media forms make meaning; are produced and regulated; and
how society, culture and history are defined by such forms.
Encouraging students to actively engage in media research and
analysis, each chapter seeks to guide readers through key questions
and ideas in order to empower them to develop their own
scholarship, expertise and investigations of the media worlds in
which we live. Fully updated to reflect the contemporary media
environment, the third edition includes new case studies covering
topics such as Brexit, podcasts, Love Island, Captain Marvel, Black
Lives Matter, Netflix, data politics, the Kardashians, President
Trump, 'fake news', the post-Covid world and perspectives on global
media forms. This is an essential introduction for undergraduate
and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies,
communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media and
popular culture.
Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative
Assemblies foregrounds the importance of storytelling for coalition
building, solidarity, and performative assembly. Bringing together
scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives, this book offers creative explorations, analyses,
personal stories, and case studies of digital feminist activism
that speak directly to the many ways that feminist communities
assemble for the purposes of protest and resistance. Through
various forms of feminist media mobilizations, from hashtag
feminism and platform activism to personal blogs and meme accounts,
these chapters explore how digital feminists use the long-standing
tactics of storytelling to counter the dominant narratives of white
supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and the intersecting
oppressions that accompany such structures, both online and
offline. By sharing stories of intersectional feminist assembly for
collective justice, this book contributes to larger conversations
about establishing alternative ways of seeing and being in the
world, inviting others to assemble with us.
The collection of essays outlines how feminists employ a variety of
online platforms, practices, and tools to create spaces of
solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses
popular forms of individual, consumerist, white feminist
empowerment in favor of collective, tangible action. Including
scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives, these essays help to catalog the ways in which
feminists are organizing online to mobilize different feminist,
queer, trans, disability, reproductive justice, and racial equality
movements. Together, these perspectives offer a comprehensive
overview of how feminists are employing the tools of the internet
for political change. Grounded in intersectional feminism--a
perspective that attends to the interrelatedness of power and
oppression based on race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, and
other identities--this book gathers provocations, analyses,
creative explorations, theorizations, and case studies of networked
feminist activist practices. In doing so, this collection archives
important work already done within feminist digital cultures and
acts as a vital blueprint for future feminist action.
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