Media Studies: A Reader

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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 Flick 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 Devience?: 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 Feminity 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 Queet Here 40 Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes Further Reading Section 5: Media and Everyday Life Introduction 41 Behind Closed Doors: Video Recoders 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 Realiity 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 'Reality' Games Further Reading Section 7: News and Documentary Introduction 50 News Values and News Production 51 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 Publisher's Acknowledgements Index of Names Subject Index