Taking Sides - Clashing Views in Media and Society

Klappentext The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create(TM) includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issues is thoughtfully framed with "Learning Outcomes, " an "Issue Summary, " an "Introduction, " and an "Exploring the Issue" section featuring "Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, " and "Additional Resources" and "Internet References." Go to McGraw-Hill Create(TM) at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com, click on the "Collections" tab, and select The Taking Sides Collection to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Alexander/Hanson: Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Media and Society, 13/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource by clicking here. An online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing material is available for each Taking Sides volume. "Using Taking Sides in the Classroom" is also an excellent instructor resource. Visit the Create Central Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/createcentral for more details. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Clashing Views on Media and Society, Thirteenth Edition Unit: Media and Social Issues Issue: Are Family Values Shaped by the Mass Media?YES: Leigh H. Edwards, from Reality TV and the American Family, in The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV & History (University Press of Kentucky, 2010)NO: Karen Sternheimer, from Hollywood Doesn t Threaten Family Values, Contexts (Fall 2008)Associate Professor Leigh H. Edwards examines how families are portrayed in television and discusses how certain narrative tropes, trends, and genres present us with real family relationships representative of American society and culture. She raises the important point that reality television in particular presents viewers with real conflicts to which many families can relate, because the programs portray real cultural problems that have no easy answers. She concludes her argument with an assessment that public debates about family and marriage often frame the content of the families we see on television. Sociology Professor Karen Sternheimer cites public controversies about the real lives and on-screen portrayals of families by celebrities who are often criticized for contributing to demeaning family values in popular culture. She argues that these celebrities and media figures are not to be blamed for contributing to moral chaos, when the real-world economy provides a more powerful argument for examining families, values, and problems in American life. Issue: Have Media Representations of Minorities Improved?YES: Drew Chappell, from Better Multiculturalism through Technology: Dora the Explorer and the Training of the Preschool Viewer(s), in Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images (Lexington Books, 2013)NO: Elizabeth Monk-Turner et al., from The Portrayal of Racial Minorities on Prime Time Television: A Replication of the Mastro and Greenberg Study a Decade Later, Studies in Popular Culture (Spring 2010)Professor Drew Chappell, in Better Multiculturalism through Technology: Dora the Explorer and the Training of the Preschool Viewer(s), juxtaposes facts about recent actions attempting to ban ethnic studies and restrict immigration in parts of the United States with the television show, Dora the Explorer s portrayal of a bilingual (English/Spanish) speaking girl, and discusses how the show introduces children to bilingualism, border identities, and multicultural discourse. Chappell discusses how the performance of identity in Dora s world can teach children about what brings all humans...

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• Authors: Alison Alexander, Alison (EDT) Alexander, Jarice Hanson
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2014
• EAN: 9781259222474
• ISBN: 978-1-259-22247-4
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism