| Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste Contributor(s): Gray, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1479809268 ISBN-13: 9781479809264 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 302.230 |
| LCCN: 2020051055 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do The 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. |