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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... 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 ongender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses ...
... today, from James Bond to Ugly Betty; an introduction to key theorists such as Judith Butler, Anthony Giddensand Michel Foucault; an outline of creative approaches, where identities are explored with video, drawing or Lego bricks; a ...
... today, itishighly unlikelythat these ideaswouldhave noimpact on our ownsense of identity. At the sametime,though, it's just as unlikelythatthe media has a directand straightforward effect onits audiences. It's unsatisfactory to ...
... Today, 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 ...
... today aregenerally thoughtto be 'equal', totheextent thatthe cover ofTime magazine wondered if feminismwas'dead' in June 1998. Thereis even a noisy minority who argue that feminism has 'gone too far' and that it is nowmen who ...
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