Dislike-Minded : Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste Hardback
by Jonathan Gray
Part of the Critical Cultural Communication series
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Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they doThe study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation?Dislike-Minded draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship.
The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre Bourdieu’s famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery.
Instead, Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and other media, and why this dislike matters. As we watch and listen through gritted teeth, Dislike-Minded listens to what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience research within communication, media, and cultural studies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781479809264
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:New York University Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781479809264
