Book description
The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 200 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field.
Includes more than 200 essays written by over 230 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe
Arranged across 7 thematic volumes edited by an international team of expert scholars
Accessible volume introductions provide overviews of key themes
The most definitive resource available in this complex, heterogeneous, multi-methodological and multi-theoretical interdisciplinary field
Explores media as it is being practiced, produced, and analyzed in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe
All volumes pay close attention to issues of gender and ethnicity so necessary to understanding contemporary media
Probes the many dimensions of the subject: history, production, content, audiences, effects, and futures
Table of contents
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The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, 7 Volume Set
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Volume I
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents of Volume I: Media History and the Foundations of Media Studies
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume I
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
- Introduction
- PART 1: APPROACHES
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PART 2: MOMENTS
- 7: Writing
- 8: The Enlightenment and the Bourgeois Public Sphere (Through the Eyes of a London Merchant-Writer)
- 9: Journalism History: North America
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10: Journalism History
- Prehistory of Journalism
- The Corresponding Journalism of the Early Press
- The Development of Opinion Journalism
- Commercialization in the Nineteenth Century
- The Professionalization of Journalism
- Between Political Instrumentalization and Technical Innovation: Journalismin the Twentieth Century
- Prospects: Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
- REFERENCES
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11: Journalism History
- Genealogy of Korean Journalism
- The Birth of the Daily Newspaper: Chobo
- Origins of the Modern Newspaper
- The Long Road to Press Freedom: State Intervention in Journalism
- Media Policies After Democratization
- The Media Policy of Kim Young-Sam (1993–1997)
- Commercialization of Journalism
- Changing Journalists, Changing Audience
- Demystification of Watchdog Journalism: Journalists Running for Political Power
- Changes of Audience: Decline of Newspaper Readership and Evaluation
- Journalism in Digitization: Where to Go?
- History of Journalism Studies in Korea
- Key Issues in Journalism Studies in the 2000s
- Rethinking Press Freedom in Korea
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 12: Journalism History
- 13: Communications Networks in the United States
- 14: “Quickening Urgency”
- 15: Photography
- 16: Moving Images
- 17: Sound Histories
- 18: Television
- 19: The Culture Industries
- 20: Advertising and Consumer Culture
- 21: The Rise of the Professional Communicator
- 22: The New World Information and Communication Order
- 23: Text, Translation, and the End of the Unified Press
- 24: Media and Mobility
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PART 3: FOUNDATIONS
- 25: Communication and Democracy
- 26: The Chicago School of Sociology and Mass Communication Research
- 27: Propaganda Studies
- 28: Frankfurt School, Media, and the Culture Industry
- 29: The Rise and Fall of the Limited Effects Model
- 30: The Political Economy of Communication
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31: Unmasking Class and Tradition
- Introduction
- Some Preliminary Points
- Reading the British Tradition in Cultural Studies
- Re-Narrating Class and Cultural Studies
- Deconstructing Demystification
- Revisiting the Operationalization of the Category of Class
- New Frames of Reference and Affiliation in Cinematic and Literary Production
- Narrating Class and Tradition in the Literary Imagination
- Conclusion: The New Imperatives of Globalization and the Predicament of Cultural Studies
- REFERENCES
- Index
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Volume II
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents of Volume II: Media Production
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
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Making Media Production Visible
- Structure and Agency in Media Production Research
- The Zeitgeist for Media Production
- Production Regimes and Infrastructures
- The Cultural Industries and the Organization of Production
- Product and Content Flows
- Production Work and Practices
- Production Cultures
- The Ethics of Production
- Producing the Field
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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PART 1: PRODUCTION REGIMES AND INFRASTRUCTURES
- 1: The Governance of Communication and Culture
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2: Media Production and Information Policy
- Ideological Aspects of Information Policy
- Information Policy and the Balance of Trade
- The Replication of the Celestial Jukebox
- Alternative Tentacles: The Rollout of European Access Controls
- Case Studies: HADOPI and the Digital Economy Act of 2010
- Developing Alternative Models for Information Policy
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 3: The Slippery Slopes of “Soft Power”
- 4: Television-Set Production in the Era of Digital TV
- 5: Citizenship and Media Ownership
- PART 2: THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION
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PART 3: PRODUCT AND CONTENT FLOWS
- 10: A Critical Analysis of Cultural Imperialism
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11: Hollywood's Presence in Latin America
- Historical Overview
- The History and Impact of Runaway Productions in Latin America
- The Mexican Film Industry from the Late 1990s to the Present
- The Argentine Film Industry from the Late 1990s to the Present
- SOS (Save Our Screens): Enacting the Screen Quota in Argentina
- Co-Production Between Argentina and Spanish Autonomous Communities, Catalonia and Galicia
- Conclusion
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 12: Global Ugly Betty
- 13: The Comings and Goings of Key Scenarios
- PART 4: PRODUCTION WORK AND PRACTICES
- PART 5: PRODUCTION CULTURES
- PART 6: THE ETHICS OF PRODUCTION
- Index
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Volume III
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents of Volume III: Content and Representation
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume III
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
- Technology, Convergence, and Power
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PART 1: PERSUASION AND INFORMATION
- 1: Understanding Hypercommercialized Media Texts
- 2: And Now a Click from Our Sponsors
- 3: Women's Portraits Present in Print Fashion Advertisements
- 4: Marketing Militarism to Moms
- 5: From Second-Wave to Poststructuralist Feminism
- 6: “Honey-Drenched, Rags to Riches, Good versus Evil Stories”
- 7: Changes in the News Representation of Minorities Over the Course of 40 Years of Research
- 8: Is There Local Content on Television for Children Today?
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PART 2: ENTERTAINMENT
- 9: The Evolution of Hollywood Latinidad
- 10: Queer Gazing and the Popular
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11: Mediated Portrayals of Masculinities
- From Masculinity to Masculinities: Evolving Portrayals in US Media
- Differing Masculinities in the Media
- Hegemonic Masculinity in the Media
- Hypermasculinity in the Media
- Metrosexuals in the Media
- Masculinity and Race
- Masculinity and Class
- Masculinity and Sexual Orientation
- Masculinity and Gender
- Masculinities “Appropriate” for Specific Media
- Masculinities across Media
- Masculinities in Print
- Future Research
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- 12: Shifting Contours of Indian Womanhood in Popular Hindi Cinema
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13: Portrayals of Female Scientists in the Mass Media
- Who's Working in the Lab? A Look at the Numbers
- Female Scientists in the Press: Extraordinary but Marginalized Scientist as well as a Good Wife and Mother
- Female Scientists on Television: Moving Away from Marginalization and Subordination to A Lab of Her Own
- Female Scientists on the Big Screen: Competent, Independent, and “Remarkably Beautiful”
- Female Scientists in Cyberspace: Gains in Professional Status Yet Challenges with Bias and Work/Family Balance
- Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- 14: “She's the Real Thing”
- 15: Chinese Cinema at the Millennium
- 16: Violent Content on US Television
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PART 3: INTERACTION AND PERFORMANCE
- 17: Blogging Culture
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18: Blogging the Third Wave?
- From Suffrage to Blogging: Generations of Feminist Media
- Feminist Media as Citizens' Media
- “Bare Breasts”: Blogging and Collective Action
- Consciousness-Raising 2.0? Blogging against Anorexia
- Micro-Narratives of Motherhood: Politicizing Childbirth and Breastfeeding
- Blogging Citizenship – Doing Feminism: Concluding Remarks
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 19: Videogame Content
- 20: Rethinking Violent Videogame Content
- 21: Transmedial Aesthetics
- 22: Recent Trends in Research on Health Portrayals in the Media
- 23: Canadian (Re)Presentation
- 24: Calypso and the Performance of Representational Politics
- Index
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Volume IV
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents to Volume IV: Audience and Interpretation
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume IV
- Volume Editor's Acknowledgments
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
- Studying the Elusive Audience
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PART 1: EXPANDING THE HORIZONS OF AUDIENCE STUDIES
- 1: The Audience in the Graduate Curriculum
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2: Fostering Surprise and Productive Discomfort in Audience Studies through Multi-Sited Ethnography
- Multi-Sited Ethnography: Possibilities, Problems, and Pleas
- My Project: Multi-Sited? Multilocal? Or Just Multiperspectival?
- The Diffusion, Modification, and Rejection of Borders' Model of Bookselling
- Competing Discourses, Ideologies and Conflicts Concerning Borders' Practices
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 3: Studying Audiences with Sense-Making Methodology
- 4: The Abbreviated Field Experience in Audience Ethnography
- PART 2: PRACTICING REFLEXIVITY IN AND OUT OF THE FIELD
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PART 3: FINDING AND ENGAGING GLOBAL AUDIENCES
- 10: Mythic Viewing
- 11: “Unity in Diversity?”
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12: A Framework for Audience Study of Transnational Television
- Introduction
- East Asian Pop Culture
- TV Drama Audience
- Domesticating/Preserving the Foreign
- Fragmentary Audience
- Identification Ladder: From Human to Asian
- Distancing/Embracing Difference
- Layers of Audiences
- The Politics of a Transnational Audience
- Pan-East Asian Identity?
- For an Analytic Framework
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 13: Language and Indian Film Audiences
- 14: Watching Telenovelas in Brazil
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15: China's Media Transformation and Audience Research
- Importation of Foreign Media Products in the 1980s and Early 1990s
- Rapid Media Commercialization in China since 1992
- Global Influences on Chinese Media in the Post-WTO Environment
- Shifts in the Portrayal of a Chinese Audience: From Workers and Citizens to Consumers and Spectators
- Understanding the Implicit and Explicit Audience: Textual Analysis and Ethnography
- Audience Research and New Communication Technologies
- Agenda for Future Audience Research
- Conclusion
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 16: Using Ethnography to Understand Everyday Media Practices in Australian Family Life
- PART 4: COMPREHENDING ONLINE AUDIENCES
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PART 5: EMPOWERING AUDIENCES AS CITIZENS
- 21: Health, Culture, and Power
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22: Participation Beyond Production
- Untangling Activist and Alternative Audiences
- Activists as Transmitters of Information
- The “Disturbing Gulf” between Activist Producers and Audiences
- Current Approaches to Activist Audiences
- Theorizing Activist Audiences as Participants in Ritual
- Contributions of Ritual to Media Research
- Social Limitations of New Activist Media
- Future Directions
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
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23: Audiences as Citizens
- Reception Research: Delimiting the Scope of the Analysis
- Stage 1: Hegemonic Citizenship
- Stage 2: Monitorial Citizenship
- Stage 3: Popular Citizenship
- Stage 4: Participatory Citizenship
- Stage 5: Ubiquitous Citizenship
- Audiences as Citizens: A Historical Typology
- Ubiquitous Citizenship: Challenges for Reception Research
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 24: Citizenship, Communication, and Modes of Audience Engagement
- Index
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Volume V
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents of Volume V: Media Effects/Media Psychology
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume V
- Volume Editor's Acknowledgments
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
- Changes and Continuities in the Media Effects Paradigm
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PART 1: THEORIES AND PROCESSES/PROCESSING
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I: Theories of/about Effects
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1: Mapping the Psychology of Agenda Setting
- Classic Conceptualizations and Emerging Trends
- An Overview
- Agenda-Setting Effects from Incidental Exposure
- Need for Orientation
- Elaborating the Concept of Relevance
- Knowledge Activation and Agenda Setting
- Consequences for Attitudes and Opinions
- Affective Impact of Visual Information
- Political and Civic Participation
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
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2: Cultivation Theory
- Early Criticism
- Can Cultivation Survive the Active Viewer?
- The Cognitive Revolution
- First Order, Second Order, On-Line and Off-Line
- The Final Word on First- and Second-Order Processes?
- Challenges for Cultivation Theory in the Twenty-First Century: From a Psychological to a Sociological Revolution?
- The Final Challenge: Toward a Sociology of Cultivation?
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 3: Framing and Priming Effects
- 4: Examining Media Effects
- 5: Perceptions of Media and Media Effects
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1: Mapping the Psychology of Agenda Setting
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II: Internal Mechanisms: Enjoyment, Appeal, and Physiological Response
- 6: Uses and Gratifications
- 7: Media Entertainment as a Result of Recreation and Psychological Growth
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8: Selective Exposure to Violent Media
- The Appeal of Media Violence
- Selective Exposure
- What is Media Violence?
- Excitation and Affect-Based Approaches
- Functional Approaches
- Personality Factors
- Social Factors Influencing Interest in Media Violence
- Understanding Interest in Media Violence: Some Tentative Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 9: Media Message Processing and the Embodied Mind
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10: Thoughtless Vigilantes
- Viewing Video Violence
- Research and Social Concerns upon the Introduction of Television
- The Five Principal US Commissions
- Correlational Research
- Special-Case Correlational Research
- Behavioral to Neurological – Connections
- Beginnings of Brainmapping
- Exploring the Prefrontal Cortex
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
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I: Theories of/about Effects
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PART 2: EVIDENCE OF EFFECTS
- III: On Views of Self, Others, and Events
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IV: On Personal Health and Social Well-Being
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15: Understanding the Role of Cognition and Media in Body Image Disturbance and Weight Bias in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
- Media and Body Size and Shape
- Relevant Background and Earlier Work in the Discipline
- Sports Media Exposure and Sports Participation
- Broader Contextualization of Relevant Factors: Body Image and Individual, Social, and Mediated Factors
- Theoretical Perspectives
- Other Body Image Outcomes: Anti-Fat Bias and Obesity
- The Role of the Media in the Development of Anti-Fat Bias
- Summary Discussion of Media Exposure and Anti-Fat Bias
- Media and Obesity
- Directions for Future Research
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 16: Tracing the Course of Reality TV Effects Research
- 17: Media-Related Fear
- 18: Callous/Malice
- 19: Sex on Television
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15: Understanding the Role of Cognition and Media in Body Image Disturbance and Weight Bias in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
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V: In the Political Arena
- 20: Political TV Advertising and Debates
- 21: News and Political Entertainment Effects on Democratic Citizenship
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22: Exploring Relations between Political Entertainment Media and Traditional Political Communication Information Outlets
- The Rise of Political Entertainment
- In the Message is the Mechanism: The Importance of Content
- The Who: The People Watching “The What”
- Effects Mechanisms: Areas of Promise
- Hybridity
- Causes and Characteristics of Hybrid Political Media Environment
- Conclusion: A Bright Future for Effects Research
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 23: Digital Democracy
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VI: On/Of Persuasion
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24: Advances in Public Communication Campaigns
- Studying Public Communication Campaigns
- Campaign Design and Management
- Summative Evaluation of Campaign Effects
- Message Types
- Mediated Communication Channels: Mass and Digital
- Quantitative Dissemination Factors
- Example Campaign Focus: Anti-Drug Campaigns
- Example Campaign Focus: Antismoking Campaigns
- Example Campaign Focus: Risky Drinking Campaigns
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 25: Effects of Social Marketing
- 26: Using Message Framing in Health-Related Persuasion
- 27: The Intended and Unintended Effects of Advertising on Children
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24: Advances in Public Communication Campaigns
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PART 3: THE YOUNG AUDIENCE
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VII: Media Use and Effects on Learning and Development
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28: Media Use, Scholastic Achievement, and Attention Span
- Media and Scholastic Achievement: Key Questions
- Preeminence of Television
- Television and Achievement
- Vanishing Relationship
- Curvilinearity
- Attention
- Language and Vocabulary
- Creativity and Imaginative Thinking
- In Search of Explanation
- Displacement
- Interference
- Socialization
- Process
- Looking Ahead
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
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29: The Educational Impact of Television
- Television as an Educational Tool
- The Task of Watching Television
- Does Television Have an Educational Impact on Infants?
- Preschoolers and Television
- Preschoolers' TV Viewing: A Task Analysis
- Educational Programming
- Beyond the Preschool Years
- How is Educational Television Successful?
- Final Comment
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
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30: Prosocial TV Content
- Television as a Prosocial Force
- Weak Effects of Unaided Viewing at Home
- Why Might Young Viewers Need Help Interpreting Prosocial Content?
- How are Prosocial Lessons Taught in Television Content?
- The Risks in Modeling Negative Attitudes and Behaviors
- Strategies to Try to Increase Positive Effects
- Adding Explanatory Inserts to Prosocial Content
- Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
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31: The Effects of Internet Communication on Adolescents' Psychosocial Development
- Adolescents and the Internet
- Internet Communication and Psychosocial Development in Adolescence
- Identity, Intimacy, and Five Characteristics of Internet Communication
- Opportunities and Risks of Internet Communication: Empirical Evidence
- Conclusions, Shortcomings, and Future Research
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
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28: Media Use, Scholastic Achievement, and Attention Span
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VIII: Mediating and Mitigating Effects
- 32: Boom or Boomerang
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33: The Role of Parental Mediation in the Development of Media Literacy and the Prevention of Substance Use
- Mediation in Homes and Schools
- Parental Mediation and its Effects on Children and Adolescents
- Parental Mediation and Substance Use
- Relationships between Parental Communication and Media Literacy
- Media Literacy and Substance Use
- Integrating Parental Communication, Media Literacy, and Substance Use
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 34: The Impact of Media Policy on Children's Media Exposure
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VII: Media Use and Effects on Learning and Development
- Index
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Volume VI
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents to Volume VI: Media Studies Futures
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume VI
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
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Introduction
- Media Studies Futures, Past and Present
- Defining the Media in Media Studies
- Part 1: The Future of Media Studies: Theory, Method, Pedagogy
- Part 2: Social and Mobile Media Futures
- Part 3: Media Industry and Infrastructure Futures
- Part 4: Journalism and Media Policy Futures
- Part 5: Interactivity, Affect, and the Future of Media Subjectivities
- Part 6: Whose Future? Children, Youth Cultures, and Digital Media
- Part 7: What Future? Or, the Unsustainable Present
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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PART 1: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA STUDIES: THEORY, METHODS, PEDAGOGY
- 1: Media Studies
- 2: In Praise of Concept Production
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3: Betting on YouTube Futures (for New Media Writing and Publishing)
- Introduction
- Introduction to Blogs 1 and 2 on Teaching the Class
- BLOG 1: Learning from YouTube, 09-07-2007
- BLOG 2: Learning from Learning from YouTube mid-way, 10-29-07
- Conclusions for Blogs 1 and 2
- Introduction to Blogs 3 and 4 on Organizing Course Output and Conclusions
- BLOG 3: YouTube Tour #1: Education, 02-06-08
- BLOG 4: On Video Writing, 11-04-08
- Introduction to Blogs 5–7: On Publishing in the Digital Humanities
- BLOG 5: Digital Humanities, 7-17-09
- BLOG 6: On Publishing My YouTube “Book” Online, 09-24-09
- BLOG 7: Contractual Mayhem: On the Absurdities of Moving from Paper to Digital in Academic Publishing, 06-11-10
- Conclusions Regarding the Shape of What is Missing
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 4: Media Visualization
- 5: The Future of Game Studies
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6: The Study of the Internet in Latin America
- Alejandro Piscitelli: From Cyberculture to Facebook
- The Information Society and the Digital Divide
- Complicating Internet Access Issues in Latin America
- Youth Cybercultures, Citizenship, and Urban Environments
- Cyber-Journalism and Blogging
- Affect and Collective Intelligence
- Analog Researchers, Retrained for the Digital World
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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PART 2: SOCIAL AND MOBILE MEDIA FUTURES
- 7: The Prehistoric Turn?
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8: The Waning Distinction Between Private and Public
- The Waning Distinction Between Private and Public: Net Locality and the Restructuring of Space
- When Photography Becomes Cartography
- Making Location Data Public
- Rethinking Privacy and Surveillance
- Blurring the Line Between Private and Public Spaces
- Privacy Through Exclusion
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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9: How to Have Social Media in an Invisible Pandemic
- Time, Visibility, and the Social Media Pandemic
- H1N1: Social Mediation in Anticipatory Time
- Social Media and Reproducibility
- H1N1's Shadow Archive: (Flu) Pandemics Past
- HCV: An Invisible Pandemic in Slow Time
- The Invisible Virus: Clones, Swarms, and Quasi-Species
- HCV's Slow Course: The Imperceptible Bodily Progression of the Disease
- The Invisible Pandemic: HCV as Unmediated Virus
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 10: Mobile Handsets from the Bottom Up
- PART 3: MEDIA INDUSTRY AND INFRASTRUCTURE FUTURES
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PART 4: JOURNALISM AND MEDIA POLICY FUTURES
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15: The Decline of Modern Journalism in the Neo-Partisan Era
- The Roots of the Objective Ideal and Journalism's Modern Period
- News Values, Individualism, and Conflict: The “Story” of Modern News
- The Transformation of Reporting Rites in the New Partisan Era
- Differences Between Print and Television News
- Visual Language, Critical Limits, and Fake News
- 60 Minutes and the Reporter as Star
- Contemporary Journalism in the Corporate Era
- The Waning of the Corporate Era
- The Decline of Public Journalism and the Rise of Citizen Reporters
- New News Narratives and Implications for Journalism Education
- REFERENCES
- 16: Reconstructing Accountability
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17: Mending the Gaps
- Historicizing the Disconnect and Revising the Revisions
- A Call for Critical Media Policy Studies
- The Critical Political Economy Approach to Policy Studies
- Contextualizing the Big Picture and Returning to the Normative
- What Media Scholars Can Do
- Historicizing Media Policy Debates
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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15: The Decline of Modern Journalism in the Neo-Partisan Era
- PART 5: INTERACTIVITY, AFFECT, AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA SUBJECTIVITIES
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PART 6: WHOSE FUTURE? CHILDREN, YOUTH CULTURES, AND DIGITAL MEDIA
- 23: Mapping ICT Adoption among Latin American Youth
- 24: South Asian Digital Diasporas
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25: Fear and Hope
- Research on Children and Young People's Mobile Phone Use
- Childhoods Past and Present
- Moral Panics and Risks
- Examples from Japan: Facing the Future of Communication
- Examples from Australia: Threats and Opportunities
- Comparing Japan and Australia: Commonalities and Contexts
- Back to the Futures: Conclusions and Questions
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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PART 7: WHAT FUTURE? OR, THE UNSUSTAINABLE PRESENT
- 26: Artificial Life on a Dead Planet
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27: The Dead-End of Consumerism
- Environmental Contradictions
- Economic Contradictions: The Diminishing Returns of Consumer Capitalism
- Cultural Contradictions: Consumer Capitalism vs. the Quality of Life
- Living the Contradictions: Media, Culture, and Consumer Capitalism
- Obsessed with Obsolescence
- Selling Consumerism
- Disposable News and Democracy: Rethinking the Way We Report the World
- Beyond Consumerism: Media Studies Reborn
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 28: Media Armageddons and the Death of Liberal Biopolitics
- 29: Greening Cultural Labor
- Index
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Volume VII
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents to Volume VII: Research Methods in Media Studies
- Full Contents
- Contributors to Volume VII
- General Editor's Acknowledgments
- Media Studies
- Convergence, Globalization, Technological Development, and Interdisciplinarity in a Fast-Evolving World
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PART 1: SETTING UP THE STAGE
- 1: Media Research Paradigms
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2: The Challenge of Media Research Ethics
- Who Cares About Research Ethics?
- Three Types of Ethical Questions
- A Brief History of Ethics Review Boards
- Common Critiques of Ethics Review Boards
- Media Research: A History of Competing Motives
- Basic Protocols in Media Research
- The Challenge of Online Environments
- Research Ethics 2.0? Review Boards Confront the Challenge of Digital Media
- The Challenge of Participatory and Activist Research
- Accepting the Challenge of Media Research Ethics
- REFERENCES
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PART 2: WORKING WITH PEOPLE
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3: Doing Survey Research in Media Studies
- History and Uses of Survey Methodology in Media Studies
- When to Select Survey Methodology
- Procedure for Conducting a Survey
- Selecting a Study Design
- Assessing the Mode of Delivering the Questionnaire
- Selecting a Sample
- Designing a Questionnaire
- Challenges in Survey Methodology
- Conducting Ethically Sound Survey Research
- REFERENCES
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4: Beyond the Qualitative/Quantitative “Divide”
- Introduction
- What Is Q Methodology? A Brief History and Overview
- How Does Q Methodology Work?
- Utilizing Q Methodology in Media Research
- Receptions of Avatar: A Case Study in Using Q Methodology for Media Research
- What is Q Methodology's Potential Contribution to Answering Key Questions in Media Studies?
- Conclusion
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- 5: The Interview
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6: Oral History Interviews
- Recovering and Interpreting the Past
- History of Oral History
- Memory
- Human Subjects Review
- Pre-Interview Research
- Interview as Data Collection
- Choosing Your Interviews
- Recording Technology
- Questions
- Legal Release Form
- Transcriptions/Electronic Media
- Transcript Approval
- Oral History Interview Analysis and Interpretation
- Presentation and Classroom Use
- Oral History Repository
- Summary and Conclusion
- REFERENCES
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7: Memories of Films and Cinema-Going in Monterrey, Mexico
- Qualitative Interviews and the Exploration of Cinema-Goers' Memories
- The Setting
- Memories of Cinema-Going: The Relevance of Focused Interviews in the Exploration of Film Audiences' Experiences
- Selection of Movie Houses and Films by Audiences, 1930s–1960s
- Social Class Differences
- Memories of National and Foreign Films
- Cinema-Going, Family, and Social Interaction
- Memories of Plots and Movies
- Discussion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 8: Conducting Media Ethnographies in Africa
- 9: Autoethnography in Media Studies
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10: The Basics of Experimental Research in Media Studies
- Logic of the Controlled Experiment
- Establishing Causality
- Research Questions That Can Be Addressed by Controlled Experiments
- Designing an Experiment
- True Experimental Designs
- Factorial Studies
- Confounds
- Creating Treatment and Message Variance
- Operationalizing Independent Variables
- Operationalizing Dependent Variables
- Between or Within Subjects?
- Sample Sizes
- Sample Composition
- Manipulation Checks
- Summary
- REFERENCES
- 11: Between-Subjects Experimental Design and Analysis
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3: Doing Survey Research in Media Studies
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PART 3: WORKING WITH TEXTS
- 12: Using a Mixed Approach to Content Analysis
- 13: Lessons Learned from a Research Saga
- 14: Text-Based Approaches to Qualitative Research
- 15: Analyzing Text
- 16: Cultural History and Media Studies
- 17: Historical Approaches to Media Studies
- 18: Film Analysis
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19: Eye Tracking in Media Studies
- Eye Tracking: The Method
- Structural Components of Human Eye Movements: Fixations, Saccades, Micro-Movements
- Exogenous and Endogenous Control of Visual Perception
- What Fixations and Saccades Tell Us
- Setting Up an Eye-Tracking Study: A Case Study on Shock-Inducing Advertisements
- Methodological Limitations and Challenges
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
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20: Exploring Visual Aspects of Audience Membership
- Review of Relevant Literature: Television Reception Studies
- Photovoice
- Methodology
- The Show True Blood
- Combining Photovoice With the Reception Interview
- Results: Using Photographs to Talk About Television
- Using Photovoice to Express Manifest and Latent Themes
- Providing an Aesthetic Foundation
- Discussion and Conclusion
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Appendix A: Procedures
- Appendix B: Interview Protocol
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PART 4: VIRTUAL CHALLENGES, INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, AND MIXED METHOD RESEARCH
- 21: The Methodology of Online News Analysis
- 22: Digital Ethnography and Media Practices
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23: Clicks and Bricks
- Review of Research Approaches to Traditional and New Media Studies
- Experimenting With Mixed Research Methods to Study Complex Virtual Interactions
- Study 1: A Tale of Two Websites
- Study 2: Redefining the Problem Space, Extending the Research Focus
- Study 3: A Conceptual Framework for Virtual Studies
- Measuring Perceptual Shifts in Physical and Virtual Play
- The Importance of Isolating for Gender
- Complex Virtual Interactions Call for Complex Methodological Approaches
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 24: Exploring the Effects of TV and Movie Music on Childhood
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25: Latino Diasporas and the Media
- The Transnational Perspective: The Interstices of Thinking “Glocally”
- Representations of Otherness in News Media Discourse: Latin Americans in Spain
- Compassionate View of Ecuadorians
- An Attitude of Fear Toward Colombians
- Brotherly Attitude Toward Argentineans
- Immigrants' Discourses on Their Media Images
- Ecuadorians: “We Are Just the Poor and We Get Angry”
- Colombians: “They See Us as ‘Bad’ People and They Are Afraid of Us”
- Argentineans: “If We Do Not Talk, They Do Not Realize We Are Argentineans”
- Journalists' Discourses on the “Problem” of Latin American Immigration in Spain
- Discourses on Self-Representation: Ethnic Media in Global Cities
- Cultural and Media Consumption in Diasporic Contexts
- Latino Diasporas and the Media: Notes for Further Explorations
- REFERENCES
- Index
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Volume I
Product information
- Title: The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, 7 Volume Set
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781118733561
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