mass media

Explores the importance of the news media, detailing the effects journalists and writers can have on entire industries. Also discusses audiences today and the different ways journalists try to reach them. Includes primary sources, sidebars, color photographs, critical thinking questions, a glossary, and further resources.

Explores the rise of fake news and propaganda across mass media.

"Have you ever finished a book or TV series and wished for more? Created stories, art, or videos based on a game? Dressed up as your favorite character? If so, you've entered fandom. Fan writers expand and mix up stories, like sending the Star Trek crew to Hogwarts. Cosplayers sew Star Wars and Sailor Moon costumes, and fan filmmakers make music video tributes. Fans also enrich invented worlds with greater diversity, creating female and multiracial avatars for games peopled only with white male characters. Tour fandom's history and meet fan writers, video-makers, artists, costumers, and gamers who celebrate the things they love and shape fan communities online and in real life."--Provided by publisher.

Offers twenty-four essays which deal with the concept of culture jamming, which is an activist tool designed to disrupt capitalist consumer culture. Examines techniques activists employ, and discusses the effectiveness of these interventions.

Explores the rise of fake news and propaganda across mass media.

Examines the ways in which we are represented in advertising and discusses advertising's relationship to sexuality, violence, family activities, gender roles, vocations, minorities' roles, periodical reconstruction, and more.

American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky examines the role of the media in contemporary politics, arguing that the type of democracy that the U.S. holds depends upon the uninformed, "bewildered herd" and uses propaganda to justify its domestic policies and international actions.

"A progressive research and information center examines how organizations and lobbies like gun control, tobacco and alcohol and oil have combined forces to attack and distort the truth, cripple legislation and create controversy where there is none"--NoveList.

Intense media scrutiny of pro football reveals all the flaws and faults of the games players.