{"product_id":"dislikeminded-9781479809264","title":"DislikeMinded","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDislike-Minded\u003c\/i\u003e draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media's failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship. The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre Bourdieu's famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery. Instead, Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and other media, and why this dislike matters.\u003cbr\u003eAs we watch and listen through gritted teeth, \u003ci\u003eDislike-Minded\u003c\/i\u003e listens to what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience research within communication, media, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDislike-Minded\u003c\/i\u003e offers rich theories and much-needed vocabularies for understanding our complex relationships with media that annoy, bother, and haunt us. It helps us make sense of anti-fans, media failure, involuntary reception, second-hand media exposure, and all those negative feelings generated by media engagements. Rooted in lived experience, it explores routine audience practices in their social contexts and uncovers the reasons why we consume media we simply do not like. Clearly written and evocatively argued, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in audience research, media affect, and everyday life. * Andre Cavalcante, author of \u003ci\u003e Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life \u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eA critical and incisive expansion of Jonathan Gray’s foundational work on antifandom, \u003ci\u003eDislike-Minded \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a nuanced and theoretically rich model for understanding the motivations and mechanics of dislike. Gray’s insightful exploration of taste cultures and the ways in which degrees of privilege shape our relationships to media objects makes this an essential book for better understanding our deeply polarized culture. As Gray’s robust ethnographies make clear, there are many things to dislike about our contemporary media landscape, but I am happy to report I found nothing to dislike about this book. * Suzanne Scott, author of \u003ci\u003e Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry \u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDislike-Minded\u003c\/i\u003e, [Gray] makes a deeply compelling argument to stare directly into the face of an idea that we find distasteful and inappropriate, but in the name of bettering ourselves, through an entertaining, yet thoroughly complex piece of research that is indeed worthy of its name. * Communication Design Quarterly *","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409050870103,"sku":"9781479809264","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479809264.jpg?v=1730505246","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dislikeminded-9781479809264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}