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  • Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied

    Case Studies on Social Justice Movements

    Edited by Melissa Ames, Kristi McDuffie ...
    Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied analyzes the ways that hashtags repurpose and reclaim societal narratives, considering how these digital interactions carry over into external spaces and are embodied by both participants and spectators alike. A diverse set of contributors from a range of disciplines utilize a variety of methodologies to interrogate the lifespan and trajectories of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Small Screen, Big Feels

    Television and Cultural Anxiety in the Twenty-First Century

    by Melissa Ames ...
    While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life

    From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl

    by Melissa Ames, Sarah Burcon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Contemporary popular culture has created a slew of stereotypical roles for girls and women to (willingly or not) play throughout their lives: The Princess, the Nymphette, the Diva, the Single Girl, the Bridezilla, the Tiger Mother, the M.I.L.F, the Cougar, and more. In this book Ames and Burcon investigate the role of cultural texts in gender socialization at specific pre-scripted stages of a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Adventures in Shondaland

    Identity Politics and the Power of Representation

    by Michaela D.E. Meyer, Rachel Alicia Griffin, Emily Vajjala, Jessica L Furgerson, Jennifer Billinson, Jade Petermon, Shadee Abdi, Bernadette Calafell, Stephanie Young, Vincent Pham, Myra Washington, Tina Harris, Mark P Orbe, Mary Ingram-Waters, Leslie Balderas, Melissa Ames, Sean Swenson, Richard G Jones Jr, Joan Faber McAlister Jr ...
    Innovator Award for Edited Collection from the Central States Communication Association (CSCA)Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work is attentive ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Time in Television Narrative

    Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First Century Programming

    Edited by Melissa Ames ...
    This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Time in Television Narrative

    Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming

    Edited by Melissa Ames ...
    This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold the narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    by Patricia G. Lange ...
    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, Joshua Green ...
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    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

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  • Keywords for Media Studies

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    Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access

    Edited by Cory Barker, Myc Wiatrowski ...
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