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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... and women's magazines,TV shows, selfhelp books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping ofindividual selfidentities. The book includes: a comparison ofgender representations in the past.
... YouTube (in 2005), and numerous other social networking sites where people can be creative media producers, sharing their work with thousands and sometimes millions,or just communicating with friends.This was all possible previously,of ...
... YouTube and MySpace are thefourth and sixth most popular websites globally (see Alexa.com for latest rankings). Apartfrom search services, these are the most popular websites inthe world. Weknowfrom various studiesthat individuals ...
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