Consumer Culture and the Media

Magazines in the Public Eye
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-30368-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by media texts. She provides a detailed analysis of publicly displayed consumer magazine covers and engages with big questions about the public, power and identity in mediated consumer culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iqani, M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of figures Media in Consumer Culture: An Introduction The Public, Identity and Power in Mediated Consumer Culture A Research Approach for Mediated Consumer Culture Media Retail Spaces as Multimodal Spectacles: The Case of the Newsstand Glossiness in Hyperreal Celebrity Portraiture Commodity Choice and Commercial Heteroglossia in Consumer Media Sexiness and Selling: Consumerism's Pornographic Imagination Paper Mirrors: Images of Ideal Consumers Media Strategies for Selling Consumer Culture: a Conclusion References Index

Über Autor(innen)

MEHITA IQANI is a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.