Author:
Valdivia, Angharad N.
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2003.
Descriptionxiii, 590 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:Feminist media perspectives / Margaret Gallagher. - New horizons for communication theory in the new media age / Denis McQuail. - From modernization to participation: the past and future of development communications in media studies / Robert Huesca. - Tensions between popular and alternative music: REM as an artist-intellectual / Robert Sloane. - Approaches to media history / John Nerone. - Ethical issues in media production / Sharon L. Bracci. - Digital capitalism: a status report on the corporate commonwealth of information / Dan Schiller. - Media production: individuals, organizations, institutions / James S. Ettema & D. Charles Whitney. - From the playboy to the hustler: class, race, and the marketing of masculinity / Gail Dines and Elizabeth R. Perea. - Selling survivor: the use of TV news to promote entertainment / Matthew P. McAllister. - Constructing youth: media, youth and the politics of representation / Sharon R. Mazzarella. - The less space we take, the more powerful we'll be: how advertising uses gender to invert signs of empowerment and social equality / Vickie Rutledge Shields. - Constructing a new model of ethnic media: image-saturated magazines as touchstones / Melissa A. Johnson. - Out of India: fashion culture and the marketing of ethnic style / Sujata Moorti. - Resuscitating feminist audience studies: revisiting the politics of representation and resistance / Radhika E. Parameswaran. - The changing nature of audiences: from the mass audience to the interactive media user / Sonia Livingstone. - The cultural revolution in audience research / Virginia Nightingale. - Practising embodiment: reality, respect and issues of gender in media reception / Joke Hermes. - Salsa as popular culture: ethnic audiences constructing an identity / Angharad N. Valdivia. - Race and crime in the media: research from a media effects perspective / Mary Beth Oliver. - The appeal and impact of media sex and violence / Jennings Bryant & Dorina Miron. - The role of interactive media in children's cognitive development / Ellen A. Wartella, Barbara J. O'Keefe and Ronda M. Scantlin. - The impact of stereotypical and counter-stereotypical news on viewer perceptions of Blacks and Latinos: an exploratory study / Michael C. Casas and Travis L. Dixon. - Where we should go next and why we probably won't: an entirely idiosyncratic, utopian and unashamedly peppery map for the future / John D. H. Downing. - All consuming identities: race, mass media and the pedagogy of resentment in the age of difference / Cameron McCarthy. - Expanding the definition of media activism / Carrie A. Rentschler. - Realpolitik and utopias of universal bonds: for a critique of technoglobalism / Armand Mattelart (translated from the French by Samira Hassa). - Intellectual property, cultural production, and the location of Africa / Boatema Boateng.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
