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Media and Cultural Studies

Keyworks
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Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks is a revised and updated anthology focusing on the evolving field of cultural studies, with an emphasis on developments in social media and new media forms. This second edition introduces fresh readings addressing social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization. Updated editorials and enhanced coverage of platforms like Twitter and YouTube reflect current media landscapes, making it an essential resource for understanding contemporary media culture.
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Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.

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Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.

Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization.

Includes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube.

New contributors include Janice Radway, Patricia Hill-Collins, Leah A. Lievrouw, Danah M. Boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, and Gloria AnzaldΓΊa.

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  • Media and Cultural Studies
    Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization....
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470658086

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 February 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham
  • Edited by Douglas M. Kellner
  • Edited by Douglas M. Kellner

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 1089g

Pages: 648

About the Author

Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Associate Professor of Journalismand Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. She has publishedwidely on feminist media studies and related critical approaches,especially those of race, class, and sexuality. She is the authorof The Lolita Effect (2008). Douglas M. Kellner is George Kneller Chair in thePhilosophy of Education at UCLA and is the author of many books onsocial theory, politics, history, and culture, includingTelevision and the Crisis of Democracy (1990); ThePersian Gulf TV War (1992); Media Culture (1995);Media Spectacle (2003); From 9/11 to Terror War: theDangers of the Bush Legacy (2003); and Cinema Wars:Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

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