Media Stereotypes

From Ageism to Xenophobia

296 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia becomes one-stop shopping for synthesizing what we know within the composite of stereotyping research in the United States. Utilizing a cast of top American scholars with deep roots in asking stereotype-based questions, this book is essential reading for those wishing to understand what we know about past and present media representations as well as those wishing to take the baton and continue to advance media stereotyping research in the future. Winner of the 2021 BEA Textbook Award!

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781433166679
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Band herausgegeben von: Andrew C. Billings, Scott Parrott