Media, Gender and Identity: An IntroductionPopular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes:
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... Selfhelp books 11.1 Examples of drawings of celebrities produced by teenagers 11.2–11.5 Participants building metaphorical modelsoftheir identities in the Lego identity study 11.6 The individual and I L L U S T R A T I ...
An Introduction David Gauntlett. identities in the Lego identity study 11.6 The individual and society 12.1 The Lego study found that people were familiar with the task of constructing ameaningful storyof selfidentity. TABLES. 8.1 ...
... individuals – especially young people–are spendingless time withtraditional media, such as television, and moretime online, interacting with othersthrough these popular websites (see, for example, BBC, 2006a, 2006b). So people's ...
... individual choices and achievements. A. l. l. b. a. d. n. e. w. s ? In spite of thedepressing facts and figures above, there isstilla lot of ongoing transformation for us tobe reasonablypleased about. Society clearlychanged agreatdealin ...
... individual,or mightbemade significant by external socialcircumstances (such asa racistregime or community). Other ... individuals,in whatever way,have to integrate and express within their personalities. MEDIA, E T HNI CIT Y AND IDENT ...
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