<p>This Popular Culture and Mass Media reader provides a range of readings and images from contemporary periodicals and more scholarly pieces about the role of mass media and technology in society. This text encourages readers to examine varying perspectives about attractions and distractions of today's popular culture, technology, and mass-mediated messages in their personal and social lives and come to their own conclusions. Readings and activities organized around classroom, media, and community. Allows readers to see more than an “expert opinion”, prompting them to form their own views. Readings and images revolve around mass media, popular arts, and technology. Sparks and holds readers' interest, and allows for reader “expertise” in discussions and assignments. Chapter on virtual community revolves around the newest technology of writing and literacy. Helps readers develop computer literacy skills in both the production and consumption of on-line materials. Offers readers opportunities to practice their cultural literacy within their own communities. Offers readers online, web, and Internet writing assignments. Varied topics, writers, and issues represent a cross-section of current cultural readings. Appropriate for readers interested in the humanities, American cultural studies, and journalism.</p>

Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts

Reference

Allison, Libby

Blair, Kristine L.

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson College Div

<p>Technofeminist Storiographies: Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation analyzes both historical and contemporary accounts of women’s lived experiences of technology, from Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr to women working across the tech industry today, and juxtaposes them with larger cultural representations of women and technology. The book explores both the relationship between gender and technology and the cultural contexts that enable and constrain that relationship, questions that call for opportunities for women to share their lived experiences and to have such experiences represented across media genres. Despite the rich, complex stories and histories women have with technology—as programmers, inventors, and workers—media throughout history, including film, television, games, toys, children’s books, and biographies, often inadequately and inaccurately represent them. Throughout the book, Kristine Blair chronicles the portrayal of the relationship between women and information technology across these media genres. Inevitably, the societal conditions that surround technology use—including portrayal through popular media—impact the extent to which women and girls gain and maintain access within those cultural contexts. This book calls for a more visible history of women’s technological achievements in which their stories are heard for generations to come, rather than be forgotten and unknown. </p>

Technofeminist Storiographies: Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation (Communicating Gender)

Computers & Technology

Lexington Books

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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