Product Description: This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to political and cultural representation, is in the core of the discussions that unfold in this book...read more

Product Description: In academic as well as in public debates, audiovisual media have often been accused of perpetuating gender stereotypes and of confronting viewers time and again with traditional role models and binary concepts of masculinity and femininity...read more

Product Description: This book is an initiative by extending the spatial perspective to non-material spaces. The relationship between gender and geography is explored within Indian perspective with the help of Media Space. Media Space is a virtual and metamorphic space, has a space of view, and ideas, images and texts...read more

Including the work of top sports communication researchers, Examining Identity in Sports Media explores identity issues, including gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and (dis)ability, as well as the intersections within these various identity issues. This co-edited, twelve-chapter book investigates how various identity groups are framed, treated, affected, and shaped by a ubiquitous sports media, including television, magazines, film, the Internet, and newspapers. While other books may devote a chapter or section to issues of identity in sports media, this book offers a complete examination of identity from cover to cover, allowing identity variables to be both isolated and intermingled to capture how identity is negotiated within sports media platforms. Far more than a series of case studies, this book surveys the current state of the field while providing insight on future directions for identity scholarship in sports communication. Key FeaturesDraws on both quantitative and qualitative approaches, including surveys, content analyses, and rhetorical approaches.Investigates the numerous ways print, electronic, and digital media present issues of identity in sports coverage Addresses media portrayals and/or cultural representations of one or more forms of identity (ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability/disability, etc.) as they relate to sport Includes examples and illustrations of both explicit and implicit discriminatory practices appearing in the mediaIncludes articles by a wide range of interdisciplinary contributors―both seasoned and up-and-coming scholars of sport―representing a diverse balance of intellectual ideologiesHelps students understand how identity can be addressed through quantitative or qualitative approaches, critical/cultural scholarship, and rhetorical analyses Examining Identity in Sports Media is ideal for undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Sports Communication, Sports Media, Media Criticism, Sports Sociology, Gender Communication, and Identity Politics.

Product Description: This book investigates the concepts of gender and representation in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective from the viewpoint of a variety of European and North American cultural and intellectual traditions. It contextualizes recent debates about the relationship between gender, spectatorship, and social and historical formations...read more

Product Description: The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic, and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today show an internalization of the values of a society that has more interest in the body than in the mind...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)