Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Media and Society

15. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-260-18022-0
Verlag: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Alison

Hanson, Jarice

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Unit 1:  Media and Social IssuesIssue: Do Media Reflect Contemporary Family Relationships?Yes: Leigh H. Edwards, from "Reality TV and the American Family," University Press of Kentucky (2010)No: Sarah Boxer, from "Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?" The Atlantic (2014)Associate Professor Leigh H. Edwards examines how families are portrayed in television and discusses how certain narrative tropes, trends, and genres present us with real family relationships representative of American society and culture.  She raises the important point that reality television in particular presents viewers with real conflicts to which many families can relate, because the programs portray real cultural problems that have no easy answers.  She concludes her argument with an assessment that public debates about family and marriage often frame the content of the families we see on television.  Sarah Boxer examines the content of animated movies and questions why so many mothers in fairy tales and children’s films represent the absent mother.  Since more American households are headed by married couples or single mothers, she questions the portrayals of mother figures, father figures, and step parents.  Without mother figures, she claims, other characters have to step in to teach the lessons mothers often provide for their children, and audiences are left with questionable role models.Issue: Have Media Representations of Minorities Improved?Yes: Drew Chappell, from "‘Better Multiculturalism’ through Technology: Dora the Explorer and the Training of the Preschool Viewer(s)," Lexington Books (2013)No: Elizabeth Monk-Turner, et al., from "The Portrayal of Racial Minorities on Prime Time Television: A Replication of the Mastro and Greenberg Study a Decade Later," Studies in Popular Culture (2010)Professor Drew Chappell-juxtaposes facts about recent actions attempting to ban ethnic studies and restrict immigration in parts of the United States with the television show, Dora the Explorer’s portrayal of a bilingual (English/Spanish) speaking girl, and discusses how the show introduces children to bilingualism, border identities, and multicultural discourse.  Chappell discusses how the performance of identity in Dora’s world can teach children about what brings all humans together.  Elizabeth Monk-Turner et al. revisit what has become a classic study in the portrayal of minorities in media and finds that even though how minorities are represented have changed within context, no serious changes to stereotypes have really occurred.  In this study of prime-time television programming, little has changed within the 10-year time span between the classic Mastro and Greenberg study, and the analysis provided by the authors.Issue: Have More Women Become Involved as Decision Makers in Media Industries?Yes: Hannah McIlveen, from “Web Warriors: The Women of Web Series,” Lydia Magazine (2014)No: Martha M. Lauzen, from “Boxed In: Portrayals of Female Characters and Employment of Behind-the-Scenes Women in 2014–15 Prime-time Television,” Center for the Study of Woman in Television & Film (2015)Hannah McIlveen challenges the dominant male culture of decision makers in television to discuss how women have been making inroads in nontraditional programming on the Web.  Working in low-budget situations does not stop their creativity, and even television network executives are paying attention to new content from women creators on the Web.  Every year, Professor Martha M. Lauzen, Ph.D., conducts a survey of the roles of women in prime-time television at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.  In this report, she provides data for the 2014–2015 television season, and women are still underrepresented in prime-time television.Issue:  Do Digital Technologies Influence Our Senses?<

Über Autor(innen)

Hanson, Jarice
Jarice Hanson is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on the impact of new technology. She formerly held the Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at Temple University, and was the founding Dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University. She received her MA and PhD at Northwestern Universitys Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including The Economic Encyclopedia of Social Media: Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting (Greenwood, 2016) and 24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work and Play (Praeger, 2007), Constructing Americas War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (coedited with Thomas Conroy) (Lexington Books, 2007), and The Unconnected: Participation, Engagement, and Social Justice in the Information Society (coedited with Paul M. A. Baker and Jeremy Hunsinger) (Peter Lang, 2013).

Alexander, Alison
Alison Alexander is a Professor of Telecommunications and Senior Associate Dean at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is the past Editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and past President of the Association for Communication Administration and the Eastern Communication Association. She received her PhD in communication from Ohio State University. She is widely published in the area of media and family, audience research, and media economics.