Media and Cultural Studies ~ Paperback

Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. * Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization * Includes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube * New contributors include Janice Radway, Patricia Hill-Collins, Leah A. Lievrouw, Danah M. Boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, and Gloria AnzalduaAuthor BiographyMeenakshi Gigi Durham is Associate Professor of Journalismand Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. She has publishedwidely on feminist media studies and related critical approaches,especially those of race, class, and sexuality. She is the authorof The Lolita Effect (2008). Douglas M. Kellner is George Kneller Chair in thePhilosophy of Education at UCLA and is the author of many books onsocial theory, politics, history, and culture, includingTelevision and the Crisis of Democracy (1990); ThePersian Gulf TV War (1992); Media Culture (1995);Media Spectacle (2003); From 9/11 to Terror War: theDangers of the Bush Legacy (2003); and Cinema Wars:Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).