This thoroughly revised second edition provides a critical overview of the contemporary
debates and discussions surrounding gender and mediated communication. The book is …

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has
produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the …

This book is an examination of how American mass media, including advertising, presents
Otherness-anyone or anything constructed as different from an established norm-in terms of …

Hate the most recent season of a television show? Create a viral petition! Better yet, find an
old tweet of a cast member to publicly shame them. These are examples of audience …

From the Trump administration's attempts to narrow down the definition of gender to
biologically determined sex at birth to the everyday life gendered performances in digital …

Joke OKE Hermes recently wrote that “Qualitative audience studies have arguably been the
best possible expression of feminist engagement in media studies”(2014, 61). It was the …

(A) gender and (a) sexual diversity are often viewed as taboo and controversial topics in
education, sparking resistance from some teachers, students, and communities to engage …

Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele
White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital …

Critical theorists argue that a dialectical materialism exists between ideology and culture
and the material conditions of society. The same can be said for the production of sexuality …

Sherlock Holmes remains more popular than ever some 130 years after the detective first
appeared in print. These days, the iconic character's staying power is due in large part to the …