Parasocial Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Audiences, Pop Culture, and Politics
Redaktion: Zenor, Jason

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The popularity of cable news, satire, documentaries, and political blogs suggest that people are often absorbing and dissecting direct political messages from informational media. But entertainment media also discusses the important political issues of our time, though not as overtly. Nonetheless, consumers still learn, debate, and form opinions on important political issues through their relationship with entertainment media. While many scholarly books examine these political messages found in popular culture, very few examine how actual audiences read these messages. Parasocial Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies uses various methodologies, including surveys, experiments, focus groups, and mixed methods, to analyze how actual consumers interpret the texts and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739183908
• Artikelnr.: 41872103

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jason Zenor - Contributions by Gregory Adamo; William Ashton; Carole V. Bell; Bryan J. Carr; Carly T. McKenzie; David Edmund Moody; Cynthia Nichols; Alison N. Novak; Laura Osur and James C. Rhoads

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Jason Zenor Part I: Entertainment
Celebrity
and Politics Chapter 1: Reading the President: Audience Reception of The West Wing
Jason Zenor Chapter 2: Studying Audience Subjectivity: Reactions to Death of a President
James C. Rhoads Chapter 3: The Wire and Urban Life: Baltimore Responds to its Image
Gregory Adamo Chapter 4: Celebrity Persuasion in the Political Arena: A Study of Message Effects on Young Voters' Political Opinions in the 2008 Election
Cynthia Nichols and Carly McKenzie Part II: Fandom
Fantasy
and Real Politics Chapter 5: Storytelling through World-Building: Audience Perceptions of Science Fiction Television
Laura Osur Chapter 6: Are You a Lebowski Achiever? The Fans of the Movie The Big Lebowski
Jungian Synchronicity
and the Iraq War
William Ashton Chapter 7: The Dark Knight of the Soul: Netnographic Exploration of Religion
Politics and Batman
Bryan J. Carr Part III: Millenials
Diversity
and Entertainment Chapter 8: Millenials
Citizenship
and How I Met Your Mother
Allison N. Novak Chapter 9: Talking Racial Politics Online: The Progressive Potential of Television Dramas in Postracial America and Parasocial Contact
Carole V. Bell Chapter 10: 'Nigga You Gay!' The Post-Racial Millennial Generation's Reception of The Boondocks
David Moody and Jason Zenor