Dislike-Minded : : Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste / / Jonathan Gray.

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 wha...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Critical Cultural Communication ; 37
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction Media Studies: Click Dislike --
1 The Audience for Dislike --
2 What’s Wrong and What’s Missing --
3 Fallen from Grace, or, When Sequels Attack --
4 Performing Identity through Dislike --
5 The Multiplicities of Dislike --
Conclusion The Rhythms of Dislike --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
References --
Index --
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Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781479809998
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754186
9783110753967
9783110739107
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479809998.001.0001
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan Gray.