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Media and Cultural Studies

Keyworks

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi / Kellner, Douglas M. (Editor)

KeyWorks in Cultural Studies

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2. Edition February 2012
648 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-470-65808-6
John Wiley & Sons

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Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.

Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.
* Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization
* Includes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube
* New contributors include Janice Radway, Patricia Hill-Collins, Leah A. Lievrouw, Danah M. Boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, and Gloria Anzaldúa

Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Adventures in Media and Culture Studies: Introducing the Keyworks (Douglas M. Kellner and Meenakshi Gigi Durham)
Part I: Culture, Ideology and Hegemony
Part II: Social Life and Cultural Studies
Part III: Political Economy
Part IV: The Politics of Representation
Part V: The Postmodern Turn, New Media, and Social Networking
Part VI: Globalization and Social Movements
Acknowledgements
Index
Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. She has published widely on feminist media studies and related critical approaches, especially those of race, class, and sexuality. She is the author of The Lolita Effect (2008).

Douglas M. Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is the author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Television and the Crisis of Democracy (1990); The Persian Gulf TV War (1992); Media Culture (1995); Media Spectacle (2003); From 9/11 to Terror War: the Dangers of the Bush Legacy (2003); and Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

M. G. Durham, University of Iowa, USA; D. M. Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA