Feminist Media Studies: 9 (Media Culture & Society series)

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Zelizer, B. (2005) “Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to Traumatic Public Events,” in E. Rothenbuhler and M. Coman (eds) Media Anthropology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Margot Kersing, Liesbet van Zoonen, Kim Putters & Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - The changing roles of frontline bureaucrats in the digital welfare state: The case of a data dashboard in Rotterdam’s Work and Income department - Data & Policy, 4 (E24) - doi: 10.1017/dap.2022.16 - [link] This major textbook for media research covers a range of widely used methods including content analysis, surveys, historical analysis, different methods of textual analysis and participant observation.

While there are biological differences dictated by sex, our gender is defined through this series of acts. These may include the ways we walk, talk, dress, and so onDe Vries, H. and Weber, S. (eds) (2001) Religion and Media, Standford, CA: Stanford University Press. eds.) Gordon Lynch, Jolyon Mitchell and Anna Strhan (2012) Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader. London: Routledge. They also standardise and format their cultural products (e.g. through the use of stars, genres, and serials) In postmodern culture the boundaries between the ‘real’ world and the world of the media have collapsed and that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what is reality and what is simulation. In fact, it really doesn't matter which is which!

Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L. and Larkin, B. (eds) (2002) Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Identity is a performance, and it is constructed through a series of acts and 'expressions' that we perform every day. Lynch, G., Mitchell, J. & Strhan, A. (2011) Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader. London: Routledge. A constant feature of radical feminist media has been INTERNAL CONFLICT about organization and editorial policy. Power differences, differences of opinion and interests appear to exist among women also, and are not male preserve. Therefore, in this postmodern age of simulacra, audiences are constantly bombarded with images which no longer refer to anything ‘real’This edited collection includes authors from countries around the world, investigating a broad range of issues from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Topics include representations of Hillary Clinton, the media construction of masculinity in US presidential campaigns and female members of the British Parliament, and issues of gender and class in reporting politics in India. Feminism was mostly ignored in studies of mass communication until issues such as sexuality, verbal harassment, body beauty and the study of ‘women genres’ became more politically and socially important. This old-fashioned view of how media products effect audiences is associated with the Frankfurt School in Germany This can be accomplished through comments sections, internet forums, and creating media products such as blogs or vlogs

There is a list below of the type of stereotypical presentations Van Zoonen believes exists in the media:Mediating Religion –International network of researchers working on relationships between media and religion Linenthal, E. (2001) The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, New York: Oxford University Press. Liesbet Zoonen (2020) - Data governance and citizen participation in the digital welfare state - Data & Policy, 2 (E10), 1-16 - doi: 10.1017/dap.2020.10 - [link] Feminists are particularly interested in the contribution made by the media to society’s dominant ideas about gender roles. Here you will find a complete list of the nineteen theories and theorists that you have to know for the A-level media exam. Remember that these are not the only theories or theorist out there, and you may refer to other concepts. Also please keep in mind that very few of these theorists ‘invented’ their concept, and all of them explored many more aspects than just the things we have studied.

Dayan, D. and Katz, E. (1992) Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Jansson, A. (2002) “The Mediatization of Consumption: Toward an Analytical Framework of Image Culture,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 2(5): 5-31. Gender, Ross argues, refers not only to women and femininity but also to men and masculinity as well as queer, lesbian, and gay identities, in relation to age, ethnicity, and disability. This book offers a historical discussion giving students a deeper appreciation of gender politics of contemporary media such as the “Big Brother” television program, mobile phones, and the political campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.