Representation

Jenny Kidd

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138016699
• eBook ISBN: 9781317356141
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Written especially for undergraduate students, Representation synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.

Jenny Kidd uses an engaging range of current examples and a lively style to explore a number of key questions reflecting existing and contemporary debates about representation.

These key questions include: Who 'owns' and manages representations? Whose realities are foregrounded, and whose are consigned to invisibility? To what extent are increased opportunities for self-representation altering the landscape? And what happens to representation within the noisy, playful and often subversive communications of the Internet?

Kidd considers the political, social and cultural importance of representation across a broad spectrum of cultural and creative industries.

This examination of the relationship between media/cultural representations and the construction of reality, identity and society makes it an ideal text for students that need to get to grips with this core thematic of media and cultural studies.

Index

• Note: page numbers in italics denotes an illustration

• active audiences 12, 135–136
• Adbusters Media Foundation 141, 143, 147
• Adorno, Theodor 2
• adverts/advertising 27, 32–35
  • culture jamming 140, 141–142
  • Facebook 33–34
  • and nostalgia 113
  • and reality TV 92
• Afghani women: and skateboarding 9, 9
• age 38
• airbrushing 30
• Airey, Dawn 110
• Airport 93
• alternative media 131–149
  • and active audiences 135–136
  • and civil society 138
  • comparison to mainstream media 137–139
  • culture jamming 140–147
  • definition 136–137, 139
  • and democracy 139
  • flashmobbing 146–147
  • ideological dimension 139
  • institutional responses 145–149
  • serving communities 137
• alternative public sphere 136
• American Idol 92
• America’s Army (video game) 116–117, 116
• America’s Most Wanted 92, 93
• amnesia, cultural 53
• Andrejevic, Mark 98, 99, 101
• anthropology 128
• Apple logo 23–24
• Apprentice, The 106
• Armistice Day 54
• Atton, Chris 136–137, 138
• audiences: active 12, 135–136
  • encoding/decoding model 12–13, 136
• Auschwitz:th anniversary of liberation 701

• Bailey, Olga 137, 140...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction: The ongoing significance of representation
• Theories of representation
• Language as power
• Self-representation online
• Reality TV
• The mediated past
• Subversive and alternative media messages
• Bibliography
• Index