Digitale Medien nehmen uns geistige Arbeit ab. Was wir früher einfach mit dem Kopf gemacht haben, wird heute von Computern, Smartphones, Organizern und Navis erledigt. Das birgt immense Gefahren, so der renommierte Gehirnforscher Manfred Spitzer. Die von ihm diskutierten Forschu…
Examining the cultural life of meida consumers, this book takes readers from Jenkin's early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent writing, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of th…
"Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though margina…
"Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though margina…
Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in Fan Studies, and also charts the growth of participato…
"Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though margina…
Our use of media touches on almost all aspects of our social lives, be they friendships, parent-child relationships, emotional lives, or social stereotypes. How we understand ourselves and others is now largely dependent on how we perceive ourselves and others in media, how we i…
The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures. It explores questions about what it means for a technoscience to thoroughly saturate everyday life, and places the interrogation of the science/media relationship at the hear…
Introduction -- The genome and me : personal publics -- Reality genomics -- Imagainative incorporation: art and genomics -- Identities : incorporating sexuality in the genome -- Conclusion.
The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures. It explores questions about what it means for a technoscience to thoroughly saturate everyday life, and places the interrogation of the science/media relationship at the hear…
"Why do some TV genres have the label feminine or masculine? Why do we worry about boys playing video games too much while girls play just as often? Is the TV show Sex and the City empowering or not? Why are recent television shows like Desperate Housewives post-feminist televis…
"This book summarizes, synthesizes, and critiques current social media research in order to provide insight into the benefits and detriments of social media through the lens of psychological theories.".