Feminist Media Studies: 9 (Media Culture & Society series)

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Therefore, in this postmodern age of simulacra, audiences are constantly bombarded with images which no longer refer to anything ‘real’

This major textbook for media research covers a range of widely used methods including content analysis, surveys, historical analysis, different methods of textual analysis and participant observation. Ginsburg, F. (2006) “Rethinking the ‘Voice of God’ in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media,” in B. Meyer and A. Moors (eds) Religion, Media and the Public Sphere, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indianapolis University Press, pp. 188-204. Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision, and Video Technology in Ghana,” in B. Meyer and A. Moors (eds) Religion, Media and the Public Sphere, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 290-312. Rothenbuhler, E. (1998) Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony, London: Sage.We need more socially diverse and democratic patterns of ownership help to create varied and adventurous media productions. Van Zoonen disagrees with arguments that the internet, being based on collaboration, is a technology that is true and close to women and femininity. These views are too simple and based on the idea of an essential femininity, whereas there is a rich diversity of ways that gender is articulated on the internet. And in this the mass media play a crucial role in socialisation in teaching us how to behave and think in ways that our culture finds acceptable. Andrea Mauri, Achilleas Psyllidis, Alessandro Bozzon, Ju Sung Lee, Jason Pridmore, Liesbet Van Zoonen & Sarah Giest (2021) - Complementing studies on vulnerable youths with reddit data - doi: 10.1145/3464385.3464703 - [link] The oppositional reading - where the producer’s message is understood, but the audience disagrees with the ideological perspective in every respect

Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L. and Larkin, B. (eds) (2002) Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Gilbert, A., Hirschkorn, P., Murphy, M., Walensky, R. and Stephens, M. (eds) (2002) Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11, Chicago: Bonus Books. Forbes, B.D. and Mahan, J. (2005) Religion and Popular Culture in America, 2nd edition, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

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The media' is controlled by an increasingly small number of companies who are driven by profit and power Kraidy, M. (2009) Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Complexities: The Case of Religious Cultures,” in K. Lundby (ed.) Mediatization, New York: Peter Land Publishing, pp. 123-38.

Media producers are also guilty of using binary oppositions to reinforce BME people and characters as 'others' These ideas and attitudes continue to shape contemporary attitudes to race and ethnicity in the postcolonial eraDe Vries, H. (2001) “In Media Res,” in H. De Vries and S. Weber (eds) Religion and Media, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 3-42. There is a list below of the type of stereotypical presentations Van Zoonen believes exists in the media: Emiel A. Rijshouwer & Liesbet van Zoonen (2022) - Doing research with a Gamified survey: Reflections from smart city research - Social Science Computer Review, 41 (4), 1363-1380 - doi: 10.1177/08944393211073508 - [link] Marks, L. (1999) The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment and the Senses, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture,vol.2, London: T&T Clark International.