The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. S. Elizabeth Bird offers a series of empirically based audience studies of phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations of race and ethnicity, tabloid journalism and runaway media hoaxes. Bird provides a host of useful tools and methods for scholars and students...
The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not ...
This text argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. Applying developments in cultural anthropology and folklore to media studies, the book offers a series of empirically based audience studies of phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations of race and ethnicity, tabloid journalism, and runaway media hoaxes. It provides a host of useful tools...
This text argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the ...
One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that Disney has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner. Their anger was rooted in the fact that, although Disney claimed that the film's portrayal of American Indians would be authentic, the Pocahontas story their movie told was really white cultural myth. The actual histories of the characters were replaced by mythic narratives...
One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent Disney release P...
The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and ethnographic methods provide powerful insights for analyzing case studies from around the world. Essays by leading scholars explore communities of professional and nonprofessional journalists. They describe news-making processes ranging from the local to the global digital environment, as well as how...
The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropologica...
An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory construction.
An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory con...
An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory construction.
An interdisciplinary study of the Asaba massacre, re-examining Nigerian history and enriching the understanding of post-conflict trauma and memory con...
