Over four years, Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing projects. They found that television depicts abortion as a problem for the poor and the working classes, and that viewers invariably referred to and abided by class when discussing abortion. Speaking of Abortion is an invaluable resource that allows us to hear how ordinary women discuss one of America's most volatile issues.

Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women (Morality and Society Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Press, Andrea L.

Cole, Elizabeth R.

Television

University of Chicago Press

Women's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.

Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)

University of Pennsylvania Press

The New Media Environment: An Introduction

Media Studies examines the new and rapidly developing field of media studies to discover what insights it has to offer students and general readers as they negotiate their way through the new - and thoroughly saturated - media environment.  Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way we watch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer up rich new interactive media, like video games and the internet The perfect introduction to the field of media studies Chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communication technologies, arguing that most of life itself is now experienced as 'mediated' Discusses the development of cable and satellite television, VCRs, DVDs, the internet and personal computers Emphasizes the broader political, social, and economic context within which these important new technologies have developed

Politics & Social Sciences

Williams, Bruce A.

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How Us Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms (SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)

Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.

Tripodi, Francesca

State Univ of New York Pr

Feminism can reflect the cultural moment, especially as media appropriate and use feminist messaging and agenda to various ends. Yet media can also push boundaries, exposing audiences to ideas they may not be familiar with and advancing public acceptance of concepts once considered taboo. Moreover, audiences are far from passive recipients, especially in the digital age. In Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism, Andrea L. Press and Francesca Tripodi focus on how audiences across platforms not only consume but also create meanings--sometimes quite transgressive meanings--in engaging with media content. If television shows such as Game of Thrones and Jersey Shore and dating apps such as Tinder are sites of persistent everyday sexism, then so, too, are they sites of what Press and Tripodi call media-ready feminism. In developing a sociologically based conception of reception that encompasses media's progressive potential, as well as the processes of domestication through which audiences and users revert to more limited cultural schemas, Press and Tripodi make a vital contribution to gender and media studies, and help to illuminate the complexity of our current moment.

The New Feminist Television Studies: Queries into Postfeminist Television

Beth Haralovich, Mary

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

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