The M in CITAMS@30 : media sociology /

• Other Authors: Brienza, Casey (Editor), Robinson, Laura (Sociologist) (Editor), Wellman, Barry (Editor), Cotten, Shelia R. (Editor), Chen, Wenhong (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Studies in media and communications ; v. 18.
• Subjects: Information society.; Mass media > Sociological aspects.; Communication > Social aspects.; Social Science > Media Studies.; Media studies.

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume is the second of a two-part series that celebrates the section's 30th anniversary. Casey Brienza leads the second of the two volumes - 'The M...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Introduction to volume 18: The M in CITAMS@30: media sociology
• Part 1 Inequalities and media
• Closing the digital divide: a justification for government intervention
• Public knowledge and digital divide: the role and impact of China's media
• Changing politics of tribalism and morality in I Am Legend and its remakes
• A niagara of intemperance and vice: newspaper reports on immigrant New York, 18001900
• Part 2 Cultural production and consumption
• Everyone's a critic? openness as a means to closure in cultural journalism
• The attractions of "recoil" tv: the story-world of Game of Thrones
• From the raja to the desi romance: a sociological discourse on family, class, and gender in Bollywood
• Liberalism without a press: eighteenth-century Minas Geraes and the roots of Brazilian development
• Affective (im)mediations and the communication process
• Afterword: Reflections on my path to CITASA/CITAMS and the future of our section
• Index.