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Book SynopsisThis special volume of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity. Scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies come together to examine axioms of power at play across different forms of cultural production. Contributing to these fields, the volume highlights the value of interdisciplinary work and international perspectives to enrich our understandings of agency and identity vis-a-vis key case studies of media consumption and production.
International contributions shed new light on the complex ways in which media reinforce and reflect power in different societal and national arenas. The result is a rich interdisciplinary and multi-method exploration of how power is conceptualized and realized through a variety of hegemonic and discursive practices. The authors’ analysis of critical case studies makes important progress towards closing theoretical gaps concerning the study of the complex relationships between media and gender, race, ethnicity, and national identity. In so doing, the volume contributes phenomenological and epistemic knowledge of media and power across disciplines and societal contexts.
Trade ReviewThis volume compiles seven essays by media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and communication researchers from India, Norway, and the US, who examine media and power in different forms of cultural production. They discuss discourse and representations of activism in news media as significant forms of power; hegemonic media cultural logics that limit agency for people of color, using the example of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates; how media consumption mediates parent-child relationships in Chinese immigrant families; the adoption of Facebook in developing countries; the relationship between media, identity, religion, and power in the context of middle-class Catholic women in India; audience interpretations of Sofia Vergara's portrayal of Gloria Pritchett in Modern Family in terms of stereotypes; and how identity markers are manifested when Norwegian immigrant youth play video games. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Media as Power Formations in Digital Cultures;
Apryl Williams, Ruth Tsuria, Laura Robinson, and Aneka Khilnani SECTION I: MEDIA, POWER, AND AGENCY Chapter 1. Power and Representation: Activist Standing in Broadcast News, 1970-2012;
Deana Rohlinger, Rebecca A. Redmond, Haley Gentile, Tara Stamm, and Alexandra Olsen Chapter 2. Learning from a "Teachable Moment": The Henry Louis Gates Arrest as Media Spectacle and Theorizing Colorblind Racism;
Jason A. Smith Chapter 3. Economically Challenged but Academically Focused: The Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Families' Acculturation, Parental Involvement, and Parental Mediation;
Melissa M. Yang Chapter 4. The Globalization of Facebook: Facebook's Penetration in Developed and Developing Countries;
Naziat Choudhury SECTION II: MEDIA, POWER, AND IDENTITY Chapter 5. Hybridizing National Identity: Reflections on the Media Consumption of Middle-Class Catholic Women in Urban India;
Marissa Joanna Doshi Chapter 6. Reading a Complex Latina Stereotype: An Analysis of Modern Family's Gloria Pritchett, Intersectionality, and Audiences;
Adolfo R. Mora Chapter 7. Manifestations and Contestations of Hegemony in Video Gaming by Immigrant Youth in Norway;
Carol Azungi Dralega and Hilde G. Corneliussen
