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The makeover : reality television and reflexive audiences
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ISBN: 9780814740699 9780814740705 9780814738979 9780814771334 0814740693 0814740707 0814738974 0814771335 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little.The Makeover is the first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers. Katherine Sender argues that this genre of reality television continues a long history of self-improvement, shaped through contemporary media, technological, and economic contexts. Most people think that reality television viewers are ideological dupes and obliging consumers. Sender, however, finds that they have a much more nuanced and reflexive approach to the shows they watch. They are critical of the instruction, the consumer plugs, and the manipulative editing in the shows. At the same time, they buy into the shows’ imperative to construct a reflexive self: an inner self that can be seen as if from the outside, and must be explored and expressed to others. The Makeover intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward.

Business, not politics : the making of the gay market
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ISBN: 0231127340 1322353360 0231509162 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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In a hard-hitting book that refutes conventional wisdom, Katherine Sender explores the connection between the business of marketing to gay consumers and the politics of gay rights and identity. She disputes some marketers'claims that marketing appeals to gay and lesbian consumers are a matter of "business, not politics" and that the business of gay marketing can be considered independently of the politics of gay rights, identity, and visibility. She contends that the gay community is not a preexisting entity that marketers simply tap into; rather it is a construction, an imagined community formed not only through political activism but also through a commercially supported media. She argues that marketing has not only been formative in the constitution of a GLBT community and identity but also has had significant impact on the visibility of gays and lesbians.

Business, not politics: the making of the gay market
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ISBN: 9780231127349 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Columbia University Press

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Business, Not Politics
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ISBN: 9780231509169 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, NY

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Business, Not Politics : The Making of the Gay Market
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ISBN: 9780231509169 9780231127349 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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Queer technologies : affordances, affect, ambivalence
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ISBN: 9780367143275 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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"Queer media studies has mostly focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) visibility, stereotypes, and positive images, but media technologies aren't just vehicles for representations, they also shape them. How can queer theory and queer methodologies complicate our understanding of communication technologies, their structures and uses, and the cultural and political implications of these? How can queer technologies inform debates about affect, temporality, and publics? This book presents new scholarship that addresses queer media production and practices across a wide range of media, including television, music, zines, video games, mobile applications, and online spaces. The authors consider how LGBTQ representations and reception are shaped by technological affordances and constraints. Chapters deal with critical contemporary concepts such as counterpublics, affect, temporality, nonbinary practices, queer technique, and transmediation to explore intersections among communication and media studies and cutting-edge queer and transgender theory. This collection moves beyond considering LGBTQ representations as they appear in media to consider the central role of technologies in understanding intersections among gender, sexuality, and media. Even the most heteromasculine technologies can be queered, yet we can't assume queerness works in the same way across different media. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication." --


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The politics of reality television : global perspectives
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ISBN: 9780415588249 9780415588256 9780203843567 Year: 2011 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Stuart Hall lives : cultural studies in an age of digital media
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ISBN: 9780367234539 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Culture. --- Hall, Stuart,


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Cable Visions : Television Beyond Broadcasting

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