Mass media and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints evolved alongside each other, and communications technology became a fundamental part of the Church's institutions and communities. Gavin Feller investigates the impact of radio, television, and the internet on Mormonism and what it tells us about new media's integration into American ......
White Masculinity in Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism
In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O'Sullivan argues that this genre represents a reactionary veneration of white, rural, working-class men as "real Americans" amid the Great Recession and current events.
This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.
Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers
This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.
Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for self-identification, influence, transformation, and resistance. Artists and journalists join a wide range of scholars to look at ......
The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era
By comparing current abuses of the truth with abuses from the past, this book will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond the post-truth era, and develop highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.
The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images
To See and Be Seen is also available as an audiobook via Amazon, Audible, and Apple Books. Whether inscribed in physical media, projected on surfaces, or viewed on digital devices, we find ourselves constantly inundated with streams of visual data. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how these images are made, especially in journalistic ......
Linking narratives and existing literature about Black womens technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation.
This book debunks the post-racial myth among millennial media consumers and producers. Contributors examine the complex ways in which millennial media representations provide audiences with inauthentic understandings of race and how millennials are using social media to combat such misrepresentations.
