Media studies : a reader

__Media Studies: A Reader__ introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential statements from writers such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, whose work was central to forming the field. It also includes wide ranging work on contemporary media formations from a stellar collection of diverse theorists, including Annabelle Sreberny, Paul Gilroy, Charlotte Brunsden, Angela McRobbie, Asu Askoy and Kevin Robins, Micheal Bull, and Nick Couldry, to name only a very few of those included. Finally, the __Reader__ looks to the future, exploring new media formations and their significance, through the work of Mark Andrejevic, Lev Manovich, Jonathan Sterne and others. The sixty-five readings are divided into two main parts: 'Studying the Media' begins with a section on key theoretical perspectives and follows this with five sections opening up questions around the Public Sphere, Representation, Feminism and Gender, Audiences, and Everyday Life respectively. The second part, 'Case Studies', brings together concrete examples of how theoretical approaches can be realised through a series of case studies, covering for instance, reality TV, news, advertising, and new media. With easy-to-follow introductions and guides to further reading accompanying each section, __Media Studies: A Reader__ equips the student to engage with key debates in the field. This **new edition** updates all sections with a rich selection of contemporary writing complementing re-chosen media 'classics'. In addition: further Reading lists have been comprehensively updated; introductory essays to each section have been expanded and re-written; internal layouts have been completely redesigned for ease of use. CONTENTS General Introduction PART ONE: STUDYING THE MEDIA SECTION 1 FOUNDATIONS Introduction 1 ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’ 2 ‘The Medium is the Message’ 3 ‘Encoding/Decoding’ 4 ‘The Power of the Image’ 5 ‘The Public Sphere’ 6 ‘The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media’ 7 ‘Truth and Power’ 8 ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ 9 ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’ 10 ‘Some Properties of Fields’ Further Reading Section 2: The Media and the Public Sphere Introduction 11 ‘Introduction to Orientalism’ 12 ‘Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other’ 13 ‘The Globalization of Communication’ 14 ‘An Introduction to the Information Age’ 15 “Not Only, But Also”: Mixedness and Media’ Further Reading Section 3: Representation 3.1 Textual Structures Introduction 16 ‘Programming as Sequence or Flow’ 17 ‘Broadcast TV Narration’ 18 ‘The Role of Stereotypes’ 19 ‘Genre, Representation and Soap Opera’ 20 ‘Rhetoric, Play, Performance’ 21 ‘Database as a Symbolic Form’ Further Reading 3.2 The Politics of Representation Introduction 22 ‘Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy’ 23 ‘New Ethnicities’ 24 ‘Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust’ 25 ‘Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic’ 26 ‘Queering Home or Domesticating Deviance? Interrogating Gay Domesticity Through Lifestyle Television’ Further Reading 3.3 Feminist Readings Introduction 27 ‘Survival Skills and Daydreams’ 28 ‘Reading the Slender Body’ 29 ‘The Role of Soap Opera in the Development of Feminist Television Scholarship’ 30 ‘Post-Feminism and Popular Culture’ 31 ‘Playing the Game: Young Girls Performing Femininity in Video Game Play’ Further Reading Section 4: Audiences 4.1 ‘Effects’ Debates Introduction 32 ‘On the Social Effects of Television’ 33 ‘The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective’ 34 ‘A Sociology of Media Power: Key Issues in Audience Reception Research’ 35 ‘From Bad Research to Good – A Guide for the Perplexed’ Further Reading 4.2 The Politics of Reading Introduction 36 ‘Reading the Romance’ 37 ‘Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies’ 38 ‘The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators’ 39 ‘There’s Something Queer Here’ 40 ‘Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes’ Further Reading Section 5: Media and Everyday Life Introduction 41 ‘Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home’ 42 ‘Media, Meaning and Everyday Life’ 43 ‘What’s “Home” Got to Do with It? Contradictory Dynamics in the Domestication of Technology and the Dislocation of Domesticity’ 44 ‘No Dead Air! The iPod and the Culture of Mobile Listening’ Further Reading PART TWO: CASE STUDIES Section 6: ‘Reality’ Television Introduction 45 ‘Reality TV and Social Perversion’ 46 ‘The Rise of Reality TV’ 47 ‘Public and Private Bodies’ 48 ‘Celebrity, Social Mobility and the Future of Reality TV’ 49 ‘Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualized Norms of Television’s “Reality” Games’ Further Reading Section 7: News and Documentary Introduction 50 ‘News Values and News Production’ ‘The Social Production of News’ 52 ‘Politicizing the Personal: Women’s Voices in British Television Documentaries’ 53 ‘News Media and the Globalization of the Public Sphere’ 54 ‘Bad News from Israel’ 55 ‘Picturizing Science: The Science Documentary as Multimedia Spectacle’ Further Reading Section 8: Advertising and Promotional Culture Introduction 56 ‘Advertising: The Magic System’ 57 ‘Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the “New Man”’ 58 ‘Soft-soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising’ 59 ‘The Promotional Condition of Contemporary Culture’ 60 ‘Social Communication in Advertising’ Further Reading Section 9: New Technologies, New Media? Introduction 61 ‘Cyberspace and the World we Live in’ 62 ‘The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure’ 63 ‘The MP3 as Cultural Artifact’ 64 ‘Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research’ 65 ‘Cultural Studies and New Media’ Further Reading Acknowledgements Index of Names Subject Index

Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential statements from writers such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Marshall McLuhan, Jürgen Habermas, Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, whose work was central to forming the field. It also includes wide ranging work on contemporary media formations from a stellar collection of diverse theorists, including Annabelle Sreberny, Paul Gilroy, Charlotte Brunsden, Angela McRobbie, Asu Askoy and Kevin Robins, Micheal Bull, and Nick Couldry, to name only a very few of those included. Finally, the Reader looks to the future, exploring new media formations and their significance, through the work of Mark Andrejevic, Lev Manovich, Jonathan Sterne and others.The sixty-five readings are divided into two main parts: 'Studying the Media' begins with a section on key theoretical perspectives and follows this with five sections opening up questions around the Public Sphere, Representation, Feminism and Gender, Audiences, and Everyday Life respectively. The second part, 'Case Studies', brings together concrete examples of how theoretical approaches can be realised through a series of case studies, covering for instance, reality TV, news, advertising, and new media. With easy-to-follow introductions and guides to further reading accompanying each section, Media Studies: A Reader equips the student to engage with key debates in the field. This new edition updates all sections with a rich selection of contemporary writing complementing re-chosen media 'classics'. In addition: * Further Reading lists have been comprehensively updated* Introductory essays to each section have been expanded and re-written