Clashing Views in Media and Society

Informationen zum Autor Alison Alexander is a Professor of Telecommunications and Senior Associate Dean at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is the past Editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and past President of the Association for Communication Administration and the Eastern Communication Association. She received her PhD in communication from Ohio State University. She is widely published in the area of media and family, audience research, and media economics. 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, 14/e volume for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Inhaltsverzeichnis UNIT: Media and Social IssuesIssue: Do Media Reflect Contemporary Family Relationships?Yes: Leigh H. Edwards, from "Reality TV and the American Family," University Press of Kentucky (2010)No: Sarah Boxer, from "Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?" The Atlantic (2014)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. Sarah Boxer examines the content of animated movies and questions why so many mothers in fairy tales and children's films represent the absent mother. Since more American households are headed by married couples or single mothers, she questions the portrayals of mother figures, father figures, and step parents. Without mother figures, she claims, other characters have to step in to teach the lessons mothers often provide for their children, and audiences are left with questionable role models.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)," 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 (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, bord...

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• Authors: Alison Alexander, Alison/ Hanson Alexander, Jarice Hanson
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 18.03.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9781259350825
• ISBN: 978-1-259-35082-5
• Series: Taking Sides; Taking Sides
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries