Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age
This book makes an important return to reception studies at an exciting juncture of media distribution and modes of consumption. The editors introduction contextualizes this new work within a long history of feminist approaches to audience research, and argues that new media forms require new methods of research that remain invested in questions of gender, sexuality, and power. The contributions are rooted in the dynamics of everyday life and present innovative approaches to media and audiences. These include investigating online contexts, transnational flows of media images, and new possibilities of self-representation and distribution. Collectively, this work provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for understanding media reception from a feminist communication and media studies perspective. The scholars included are in the vanguard of contemporary thinking about media audiences and users of technology in what some call the post-audience age.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.
Andre Cavalcante is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia, USA. He specializes in the study of media audiences and his work focuses on LGBTQ issues and everyday life. He is the author of the forthcoming book Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life.
Andrea Press is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at the University of Virginia, USA, where she is the Founding Chair of the Department of Media Studies. She served as the Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival for three years, and has published widely on feminist media audiences. She has three forthcoming books: Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture; The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism; and Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism.
Katherine Sender is Professor of Media and Sexuality in the Department of Communication at the University of Michigan, USA. Her book The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflective Audiences (2012), as well as her other books and articles, investigates feminist and queer approaches to media reception and production.
Feminist Reception Studies in a
Post-Audience Age
Returning to Audiences and Everyday Life
Edited by
Andre Cavalcante, Andrea Press and
Katherine Sender
First published 2018
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Contents
Andre Cavalcante, Andrea Press and Katherine Sender
Robyn Stacia Swink
Katerina Symes
Jing Jamie Zhao
Linda Steiner and Carolyn Bronstein
Katie Warfield
Francesca Tripodi
The chapters in this book were originally published in Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Andre Cavalcante, Andrea Press and Katherine Sender
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 113
Robyn Stacia Swink
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 1428
Katerina Symes
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 2941
Jing Jamie Zhao
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 4258
Linda Steiner and Carolyn Bronstein
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 5976
Katie Warfield
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 7792
Francesca Tripodi
Feminist Media Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 93107
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Carolyn Bronstein is the Vincent de Paul Professor of Media Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University, USA. She is the author of Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 19761986 (2011) and co-editor of Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s (2016).
Andre Cavalcante is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia, USA. He specializes in the study of media audiences and his work focuses on LGBTQ issues and everyday life. He is the author of the forthcoming book Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life.
Andrea Press is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at the University of Virginia, USA, where she is the Founding Chair of the Department of Media Studies. She served as the Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival for three years, and has published widely on feminist media audiences. She has three forthcoming books: Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture; The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism; and Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism.
Katherine Sender is Professor of Media and Sexuality in the Department of Communication at the University of Michigan, USA. Her book The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflective Audiences (2012), as well as her other books and articles, investigates feminist and queer approaches to media reception and production.
Linda Steiner is a Professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, USA. The editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs, she is the author of a hundred journal articles and book chapters. Her co-authored or co-edited books include
