The Media Swirl
Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics
Carol Vernallis
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The Media Swirl
Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics
Carol Vernallis
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From fan-generated content on TikTok to music videos, the contemporary media landscape is becoming ever more vast, spectacular, and intense. In The Media Swirl Carol Vernallis examines short-form audiovisual mediaâBeyoncĂ©'s Lemonade, brief sequences from Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, TikTok challenges, YouTube mashups, commercials, and many other examplesâto offer ways of understanding digital media. She analyzes music videos by BeyoncĂ©, Lady Gaga, Janelle MonĂĄe, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson.Paak, and others to outline how sound and image enhance each other and shape a viewer's mood. Responding to today's political-media landscape through discussions of Fox News and Presidential inaugurations, Vernallis shows how a media literacy that exceeds newscasts and campaign advertising is central to engaging with the democratic commons. Forays into industry studies, neuroscience, and ethics also inform her readings. By creating our own content and knowing what corporations, the wealthy, and the government do through media, Vernallis contends, we can create a more just world.