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Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological approaches, Soviet theory, the Frankfurt School, mass communication research and critical theory, linguistics and semiotic theory, social-psychoanalytical research, cognitive psychology, and cultural studies. She offers these theories as a set of tools for understanding the complex relationships between films and their audiences, TV shows and their viewers. She explains such questions as the behavior of fans; the implications of gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity with regard to the media; the effect of violence, horror, and sexually explicit images on viewers; and the place of memory in spectatorship. Providing an organized and lucid introduction to a staggering amount of work, Media Reception Studies is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in understanding the effects of mass media

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapters by Topic (Medium) -- Introduction -- 1. Kickstarting Community -- 2. After School Special Education -- 3. Throw Yo' Voice Out -- 4. How to Stare at Your Television -- 5. Prosthetic Heroes -- 6. "It's Not Just Sexism" -- 7. One of Us? -- 8. Disability, Global Popular Media, and Injustice in the Trial of Oscar Pistorius -- 9. Autism in Translation -- 10. How to Get through the Day with Pain and Sadness -- 11. Any Day Now -- 12. The Price of the Popular Media Is Paid by the Effluent Citizen -- 13. Disability and Biomediation -- 14. "A Blessed Boon" -- 15. Afterword I -- 16. Afterword II -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index

"Communication is a cornerstone of social interaction, and the study of communication and media has always moved across academic fields in the social sciences and humanities. Today it is a critical focus of study in cultural studies, business, organizational development, health, philosophy, international policy, literary criticism and psychology. Launched in 2006 with Denis McQuail's definitive four-volume major work Mass Communication, SAGE Benchmarks in Communication is an exciting new series that will bring together the best of the best from across the disciplines - both classics and material previously difficult to access"--

1 Introduction: The Rise of a New Media ParadigmDevan Rosen2 Social Media as Social InfrastructuresSarah Myers West3 Contemporary Social Capital: Relationships vs AwarenessMichael A. Stefanone & Jessica Covert4 Don't be Antisocial: The Politics of the 'Anti-social' in 'Social' MediaElinor Carmi5 Social Media, Alienation, and the Public SphereChristian Fuchs6 Social Media Content Moderation: The Best-Kept Secret in TechYsabel Gerrard7 Make it Trend! Setting Right Wing Media Agendas Using Twitter HashtagsGabrielle Lim, Alexei Abrahams, and Joan Donovan 8 Misinformation and Digital Ethics in Social MediaMelissa Zimdars9 Locating Social Media in Black Digital StudiesFrancesca Sobande 10 An Overview of Social Media and Mental HealthSarah Coyne, Emily Schvaneveldt, and Jane Shawcroft 11 Child and Adolescent Social Media use and Mental Health: A Personal Social Media use Framework Drew P. Cingel, Michael C. Carter, and Lauren B. Taylor12 There is No Easy Answer: How the Interaction of Content, Situation, and Person Shapesthe Effect of Social Media use on Well-beingPhilipp K. Masur, Jolanda Veldhuis, and Nadia Bij de Vaate13 What Does God Need With a Starship?: A Conversation about Politics, Participation, and Social MediaNico Carpentier & Henry Jenkins14 Conclusions: Together We Ascend Devan Rosen

Introduction: What is hands on media history? / John Ellis and Nick Hall -- Why hands on history matters / John Ellis -- Bringing the living back to life : what happens when we re-enact the recent past? / Nick Hall -- A blind date with the past : transforming television documentary practice into a research method / Amanda Murphy -- (De)habituation histories : how to re-sensitize media historians / Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever -- (Un)certain ghosts: rephotography and historical images / Mary Agnes Krell -- Photography against the Anthropocene : the anthotype as a call for action / Kristof Vrancken -- On the performance of playback for dead media devices / Matthew Hockenberry and Jason LaRiviere -- The archaeology of the Walkman : audience perspectives and the roots of mobile media intimacy / Marus̆a Pus̆nik -- Extended play : hands on with forty years of English amusement arcades / Alex Wade -- Enriching 'hands on history' through community dissemination : a case study of the Pebble Mill Project / Vanessa Jackson -- The media archaeology lab as platform for undoing and reimagining media history / Lori Emerson -- Reflections and reminiscences : tactile encounters and participatory research with vintage media technology in the museum / Christian Hviid Mortensen and Lise Kapper -- A vision in Bakelite : exploring the aesthetic, material and operational potential of the Bush TV22 / Elinor Groom -- Hands on circuits : preserving the semantic surplus of circuit-level functionality with programmable logic devices / Fabian Offert.

Since the popularisation of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration. Internet cafés became prosperous businesses in working-class neighbourhoods and rural settlements, and, more recently, families have aspired to buy their own home computer with hire purchase agreements. As low-income Brazilians began to access popular social media sites in the mid-2000s, affluent Brazilians ridiculed their limited technological skills, different tastes and poor schooling, but this did not deter them from expanding their online presence. Young people created profiles for barely literate older relatives and taught them to navigate platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics. He argues that social media is the way for low-income Brazilians to stay connected to the family and friends they see in person on a regular basis, which suggests that social media serves a crucial function in strengthening traditional social relations