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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on translation, transliteration, and names -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Contextualising queer community media -- 1 Queer community media in China: an archaeology -- 2 The 'queer generation': documentary filmmaking as social activism -- Part II Documenting queer history -- 3 'Documenting comrades': building a queer community archive -- 4 'We are here': the politics of memory in queer women's history -- Part III Queer screen activism -- 5 Towards depathologisation: Queer Comrades and community health activism -- 6 Queer as catachresis: the 'guerrilla years' of the Beijing Queer Film Festival -- Part IV Queering international development -- 7 'The lucky one': the 'pleasure principle' in participatory communication -- 8 The Queer Global South: minor transnationalism between China and Africa -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Queer history in China: He Xiaopei in conversation -- Film and videography -- Bibliography -- Index.

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to cultural critic and scholar Douglas Kellner, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' -- a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles -- including Elvis, the X Files, Michael Jordan, and the Bill Clinton sex scandals - Kellner's insightful and fascinating book draws out important insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. Media Spectacle is a brilliant dissection of contemporary society; its ongoing appetite for scandal, tragedy and perversion; and the new technologies and media that strive to feed this immense hunger. This is cultural criticism and media analysis at its best

Introduction -- Is media bias a serious problem? liberal bias in the media is a serious problem / Richard E. Vatz -- Conservative bias in the media is a serious problem / People for the American Way -- Media bias is not a serious problem / Jon Meacham -- Corporate spending in political campaigns fosters unfair media bias / Sheldon Whitehouse -- Corporate spending in political campaigns does not foster unfair media bias / Shannen W. Coffin -- Which issues reveal media bias? the media are biased in favor of business / David Madland -- The media are biased against business / Nathan Burchfiel -- The media have emphasized a pro-war agenda during the Iraq War / Colman McCarthy -- The media have emphasized bad news in reports about the Iraq War / Rich Noyes ... [et al.] -- The mainstream media exaggerate the threat of global warming / John Fisher -- Conservative news media dismiss the threat of global warming / Karl Frisch -- Should media bias be challenged? media bias should be sanitized and challenged / Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting -- Media bias should not be challenged / Greg Beato -- The Fairness Doctrine should be re-established / Steve Almond -- The Fairness Doctrine should not be re-established / -- Jim Demint -- "Fake news" reports creatively challenge media bias / Patrick McCormick -- "Fake news" reports undermine serious media coverage / Joe Saltzman

This review of empirical research into the effects of media violence examines what has been learned from evidence and to what extent the evidence can be accepted at face value. This article reexamines debates about different data types, different methodologies, theoretical and explanatory models, directions of effect, and value of aggregated data sets. Limitations and weaknesses are identified in relation to the various methodological approaches and sources of evidence that have been featured in academic discussions and debates about media policy and content regulation. Although not dismissing the empirical research on this subject as valueless, this critique advises caution in accepting blanket conclusions about harmful effects of media violence, instead calling for a targeted approach that recognizes that some media consumers may be more susceptible than others to media effects and that media depictions of violence can vary in the risks they represent as potential triggers of unpleasant or harmful reactions among media consumers.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Geopolitics of Media Studies -- References -- Part I: Theory and Nationality of Media -- Chapter 2: What's German About German Media Theory? -- References -- Chapter 3: Disciplining Media Studies: An Expanding Field and Its (Self-)Definition -- 3.1 On the History of Medienwissenschaft and Its Self-Description -- 3.2 Medienwissenschaft, Its Internal Structure, Its Institutionality and Its Mediality -- 3.3 The "Handbook" as Medium -- 3.4 Structure of the Handbook -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: McLuhan Transatlantic

In order to analyse "person-to-person" involvement in mass media content between an audience member and a "media personality," the concept of media interaction, which implies that the audience member experiences "interaction" with, and in many cases identifies with persons in the media content, was defined, operationalized and used in an empirical study. Guiding the empirical analysis was a model of individual mass media use which brings together: (1) those social/psychological structures that affect need fulfillment possibilities, relating these to (2) mass media exposure, and (3) media interaction, and ending with (4) some consequences of the latter. The results shown how media interaction can be related to certain characteristics of the audience member's individual and social situation as well as to certain patterns regarding consumption of various types of media fare. The results also indicate that media interaction may possibly lead to increased dependency on the mass media as well as to tendencies to use the media, as opposed to other sources of "company," at times of loneliness.

Peixin Cao´s exciting study of media incidents in contemporary China breaks new methodological ground. It combines cultural and media studies perspectives to illuminate the political and historical complexities of China´s present-day mediascape and to demonstrate how, despite the system of cencorship ruling the Chinese media world, each media incident manages to widen, within the framework of the system, the scope of action of those involved. The author´s examination of the Chinese public sphere will have important consequences for the discussion of this much debated subject.Peixin Cao earned his PhD from University of Mainz in 2008. This book is his PhD thesis.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify all important aspects of media relations researched by others and write a succinct literature review in order to facilitate the data gathering procedure for the future research in the field. Reliable references are quoted to fulfil the purpose of this paper.Design/methodology/approachThis paper aims to provide an easy to read literature review about media relations and explain terms by appropriate examples. This is done by reading other articles from previous research and reviewed contemporary issues in terms of media relations that businesses face and how they manage the whole process.FindingsThroughout the course of the work, it was found that many small to medium‐sized businesses and organisations do not actually plan for their media relations and have limited knowledge of the concept. However larger organisations and conglomerates have a good understanding of media relations and use it as a powerful PR tool. Just a few of them integrate their media relations with other components of PR and this can allow some speculations.Originality/valueMedia relations should not be used when issues and crises rise; it is essential to have constant liaison with top media owners in order to be informed about what is going on in the market. This allows adopting/changing strategies when needed in order to earn more public trust, as well as proactively identifying potential issues. Such flexibility and relationship with the media helps businesses to hinder potential issues from being turned to any kind of situation, which may harm own brands and publicity. Therefore customers feel valued and the government trust that particular business activity, because it is in favour with the society. Hence it gives invaluable credit to the business of the company.

Fifty years of research on the effect of TV violence on children leads to the inescapable conclusion that viewing media violence is related to increases in aggressive attitudes, values, and behaviors. The changes in aggression are both short term and long term, and these changes may be mediated by neurological changes in the young viewer. The effects of media violence are both real and strong and are confirmed by the careful reviews of research evidence by various scientific and professional organizations that are concerned with children's mental health and development.