ESSAYS IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Spanning a decade of key research, this collection brings together a selection of essays and chapters from leading media scholar Graeme Turner for the first time.
The organising theme of transition focuses on both the state of the media as it continues its evolution into the digital era, and the fields of media and cultural studies as they grapple with modifying their approaches and assumptions in response to the changing dynamics of the systems they study. In their own attempts to understand a range of contemporary moments over the decade, these essays also provide a personal history of Graeme Turners participation in the key debates within media and cultural studies. The essays deal with the shifting states of television, with the changing relation between the media and the state, the rise of celebrity, and the role of a critical agenda for media and cultural studies in the future. The collection is introduced and concluded by two new essays, respectively assessing the recent past and the necessary futures for these fields of study.
Providing key insights into a range of topics, this book is ideal for students and scholars looking to deepen their understanding of the transitionary nature of media and cultural studies.
Graeme Turner is Emeritus Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is one of the founding figures of media and cultural studies in Australia and a leading figure internationally; his recent work has focused on post-broadcast television and digital media.
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Names: Turner, Graeme, author.
Title: Essays in media and cultural studies: in transition / Graeme Turner.
Description: 1 Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2020. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019037466 (print) | LCCN 2019037467 (ebook) |
Subjects: LCSH: Popular cultureHistory21st century. | Mass
mediaHistory21st century. | Mass media policy.
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CONTENTS
PART I
Television
PART II
The media and the state
PART III
Celebrity
PART IV
A critical agenda
Guide
The chapters in this book, with the exception of , have been published previously. The contributors agreement with the publishers of the journals and collections in which they have appeared allow authors to retain certain rights: in this case, to republish the original material unchanged in a collection of their own work. This means that there is some variation in the referencing systems used from chapter to chapter, to ensure that this version is the same as the original. I gratefully acknowledge this retained rights policy, which removes the need to seek explicit permission to republish in this context and wish to thank the editors of Flow and the publishers Palgrave Macmillan, Sage, Routledge and Wiley Blackwell for their cooperation in this regard. I would also like to thank my colleagues who were the editors of these journals and collections and who generously gave permission for me to republish my work. Each of them is acknowledged in the relevant entries below.
, Television in Transition: A view from the margins incorporates four essays that were originally published in the online journal Flow . The online versions of these essays also attach readers comments, but I have been unable to incorporate them into this reuse of the original essays. I would like to thank Flow for the invitation to contribute this work to the journal.
Choice fatigue, community and the mutations of television was published on October 29, 2010. www.flowjournal.org/2010/10/choice-fatigue-community-and-the-mutations-of-television/
Disaster zones and the performance of television was published on January 28, 2011. www.flowjournal.org/2011/01/disaster-zones-and-performance-of-tv/
Liveness and shared-ness outside the box was published on April 8, 2011. www.flowjournal.org/2011/04/liveness-and-sharedness-outside-the-box/
How to become a TV star was published on April 27, 2012. www.flowjournal.org/2012/04/how-to-become-a-tv-star/
: Convergence and Divergence: The International Experience of Television was originally published in Television as Digital Media , James Bennet, Niki Strange eds. pps 3153 2011, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Republished by permission. Permission from Duke University Press and from James Bennett and Niki Strange is gratefully acknowledged.
: Reality TV and the Demotic Turn was originally published in A Companion to Reality TV , Laurie Ouelette ed. pps 309323. 2014. Wiley Blackwell. Permission from Wiley Blackwell and Laurie Ouelette is gratefully acknowledged.
: The Nation-State and Media Globalization: Has the Nation-state Returned Or Did it Never Leave? was originally published in Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State , Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis and Jeanette Steemers eds. pp 92105, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan. Permission from Palgrave Macmillan, Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis and Jeanette Steemers is gratefully acknowledged.
: Setting the Scene for Commercial Nationalism: The Nation, the Market, and the Media was originally published in Commercial Nationalism : Selling the Nation or Nationalizing the Sell , Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic eds. pps 1427. 2016. Palgrave Macmillan. Permission from Palgrave Macmillan, Zala Volcic and Mark Andrejevic is gratefully acknowledged.
: The Media and Democracy in the Digital Era: Is this what we had in mind? was originally published in Media International Australia , 168:1, 2018. pp 314. Permission from Sage and from the editor, Adrian Athique, is gratefully acknowledged.
: Approaching Celebrity Studies was originally published in Celebrity Studies , 1:1, pp 1120, 2010. Permission from Routledge and Sean Redmond is gratefully acknowledged.
: Is Celebrity News, News? was originally published in Journalism: Theory, practice and criticism , 15:2, pp 144152, 2013. Permission from Sage, Howard Tumber and Barbie Zelizer is gratefully acknowledged.