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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Popular media"”.
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The public and the popular media in China
… with a single party controlling all of the media. As a result, the degree of freedom of thought and speech is extremely limited, and there is no obvious way in which the mass media can act directly as a forum for free and informed discussion of public policy. Secondly, whereas the rule of …
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Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media
… an interrogation of three examples from recent popular culture of girlculture, specifically texts that target young female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic models because …
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Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana
How do popular media genres reinforce or provide alternative perspectives to circulating official political discourses, as well as articulate issues of social concern? In what ways do such media offer insights into aspects of cultural practices that inform and represent matters of key significance …
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'Gimme That Ole Time Religion': Traditionalism, Progressivism and Popular Media
… in contemporary American culture using 1990s popular media as cultural artifacts. Building on theories of ideological analysis and hegemony, this project uncovers a balance between progressive and traditionalist ideologies in American culture with progressive ideologies most often …
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An analysis of cultural appropriation in fashion and popular media.
… artifacts as inspiration for clothing. Previous media studies looked at cultural appropriation and found its place in fashion through traditional media outlets such as television and magazines. This study used a two-pronged analysis of tweets and newspaper articles. Findings indicate overall that …
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Courtship, relationship, marriage and the state: regulation of contemporary Chinese popular media
… explores the regulation of sex-related popular media text in contemporary China, across the expected lifespan of procreative heterosexual marriage. The three case studies encompass regulation of television programming, television drama, and film. The regulative actions vary from public …
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Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century American Popular Media
… representations of South Asians in American popular media have grown exponentially. This is a particularly interesting phenomenon when considering the status that South Asians occupy in the American racial hierarchy. In <italic>Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century …
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Cooking and Eating the Other: Contemporary Representations of Domestic Workers in Popular Media
<p>The mass media governs relations among social groups, manufactures political sentiment and shapes opinions on economic relations between individuals to reproduce a self-perpetuating system of power for a minute elite. The construction and organized distribution of manipulated cultural images …
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Liberating articles or oppressive reproduction?: A rhetorical analysis of popular media discourse concerning anorexia
… about anorexia nervosa. Typically, the focus in popular media coverage of anorexia has been on the character profile of a "typical" anorectic; on possible "triggers" of the disorder; and on medical, including psychological, treatment and effects of the disease. Still, there is something missing …
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Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment
<p>Serial murder has been a popular media phenomenon across the United States since the 1980s, and media representations of serial killers may significantly influence public opinion as well as impact capital punishment policies. This content analysis examined the portrayal of one dozen different …
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“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media
… of sociosexual deviance in film and American popular music of the 1910s and ‘20s. Abbreviated from vampire, “vamp” came to be used as a term for sexually voracious and predatory women in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Following the unprecedented success of the 1915 film <em>A Fool There …
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Last night a DJ queered my life : disrupting the mythologies of a popular media practice
… god, mastermind, and savior, to name a few. The popular perception of what a DJ does is exaggerated by overrepresented elements of a DJ performance, most notably scratching the sound source and utilizing studio production technique. I ask, if these standard conceptions of DJing are centered on …
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Settler Colonialism in U.S. Popular Media as Influencing Perceptions of Material Culture and Museum Ethics
… look at how action-adventure "treasure-hunting" media introduces people to fields such as archaeology, anthropology, and museum studies through entertainment media. Frameworks of settler colonialism are used to understand the intentionality behind and subsequent impact of these films in a …
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Exploration of parental media literacy and parental mediation strategies for advertainment content featuring popular media characters
… programs. For example, child-friendly media characters and related merchandise have become inseparable from advertising since the mid-twentieth century. Recently, media characters are the entertaining tools hidden in newer forms of advertising such as advertainment. However, due to …
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Constructing an instructional design framework that incorporates re-purposing popular media to enhance mathematics and science instruction
… validate an instructional design framework for media content selection that incorporates re-purposing popular media to enhance mathematics and science instruction. The study resulted in the development and validation of a framework that was applicable with novice and expert instructional …
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You Are Not Alone: Understanding Representation in Popular Media and Viewer Meaning Through Degrassi and its Fan Communities
… and the viewer, and this work shows how media can shape audiences and culture. This work employed a mixed-methods approach, with data collected from social media sites, the show’s text, and interviews with key informants, including Degrassi’s co-creator and executive producer Linda …
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Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
… to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a weapon of fear. Each of these depictions are examined in their own separate chapter …
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The Paradox of Care in the 21st Century: An Analysis of the Stereopticon of Gender, Popular Media, and Nursing
Visual images and narratives create certain meanings, and not others, about nursing. Since gender plays a pivotal role in understandings about nursing it is critical to begin by examining the production of meanings that contribute to a gendered construction of nursing. Gendering, and gendered work, …
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Hillbilly Talkback: Co-Creation and Counter-Narrative in Appalachia
… region has been systematically stereotyped in popular media representations for over a century, contributing to many of the structural, economic, and psychological challenges faced by those who live there. In order to solve this issue, it is necessary to produce compelling …
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Born to Rage? : A Case Study of the Warrior Gene
… criminal court cases. By exploring academic and popular media coverage of the MAOA-L gene variant, also known as the warrior gene, I outline the differences between academic and popular media. Furthermore, I analyze a television show: <italic>Born to Rage?<italic> and outline its coverage of …
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