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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... relationship with mediatoday ismore often characterised by the roleof 'user' or 'participant'than 'audience member'. Nevertheless, each of us is still 'audience' ofa lotofelectronic and print messages every day – and 'audience' seems ...
... relationships. The sociologist Anthony Giddens (of whom more in Chapter 5) asserts that intimate relationshipshave ... relationship to be.
An Introduction David Gauntlett. modern society is generally happy for the relationship to be dissolved. Thus we have 'a ... relationships or dysfunctionalhouseholds, and are increasingly likely to'votewith their feet'and goin search of ...
... relationships and less on power, possessions and achievement', he suggests (2001: 221). He carefully sifts through scientific evidence in orderto rejectthe ideathat mencannot help themselves for biological reasons. As one reviewer noted ...
... relationships has amuch greater impact onaperson's levelsoflife satisfaction than their success inwork. Indeed, 'once a person moves beyond the poverty level, alarger income contributes almost nothing to happiness' (2001: 100;see ...
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