General Editor's Acknowledgments
Media Studies: The Interdiscipline of the Present and the Future
Technology, Convergence, and Power: Current Trends in Text-Based Approaches to Media Studies
PART 1 PERSUASION AND INFORMATION
1 Understanding Hypercommercialized Media Texts
Matthew P. McAllister and Alexandra Nutter Smith
2 And Now a Click from Our Sponsors: Changes in Children's Advertising in the United States
Paloma Diaz Soloaga and Carlos Muñiz
4 Marketing Militarism to Moms: News and Branding after September 11th
5 From Second-Wave to Poststructuralist Feminism: Evolving Frameworks for Viewing Representations of Women's Sports
Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside
7 Changes in the News Representation of Minorities Over the Course of 40 Years of Research
8 Is There Local Content on Television for Children Today?
Katalin Lustyik and Ruth Zanker
Sofie Van Bauwel, Frederik Dhaenens, and Daniel Biltereyst
11 Mediated Portrayals of Masculinities
12 Shifting Contours of Indian Womanhood in Popular Hindi Cinema
13 Portrayals of Female Scientists in the Mass Media
14 “She's the Real Thing”: Filming the Nostalgic Past through Vietnamese Women
15 Chinese Cinema at the Millennium: Defining “China” and the Politics of Representation
16 Violent Content on US Television: A Historical Overview of the Research
PART 3 INTERACTION AND PERFORMANCE
17 Blogging Culture: Content and Representation in Blogs
Zizi Papacharissi and Sharon Meraz
18 Blogging the Third Wave? Citizens' Media, Intimate Citizenship, and Everyday Life
19 Videogame Content: Game, Text, or Something Else?
20 Rethinking Violent Videogame Content: Conceptual Advances and Directions for Future Research
21 Transmedial Aesthetics: Where Form and Content Meet – Film and Videogames
James D. Robinson, Teresa L. Thompson, Jeanine Warisse Turner, Robert R. Agne, and Yan Tian
23 Canadian (Re)Presentation: Media, First Peoples, and Liveness in the Museum
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