How television shapes our worldview media representations of social trends and change / edited by Deborah A. Macey, Kathleen M. Ryan, and Noah J. Springer.

Other author Macey, Deborah A., 1970-
Other author Ryan, Kathleen M., 1962-
Other author Springer, Noah J., 1986-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Descriptionxi, 436 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents Introduction / Deborah A. Macey, Kathleen M. Ryan and Noah J. Springer -- Not necessarily the news. A bigger screen for a narrower view / Jack A. Barwind, Philip J. Salem, and Robert D. Gratz -- Measuring the messenger: analyzing bias in Presidential election return coverage / Kahtleen M. Ryan, Lane Clegg, and Joy C. Mapaye -- Television, Islam, and the invisible: narratives on terrorism and immigration / Tim Karis -- Boy (and girl) meets world. "Your dreams were your ticket out": how mass media's teachers constructed one educator's identity / Edward A. Janak -- Defying gravity: Fox's Glee provides a forum for queer teen representation / Katherine J. Lehman -- Friendship and the single girl: what we learned about feminism and friendship from sitcom women in the 1960s and 1970s / Cindy Conaway and Peggy Tally -- America's most wanted. Epic failures: media framing and the ethics of scapegoating in baseball / Chandler Harris and Lauren Lemley -- Eyewitnesses to tv versions of reality: the relationship between exposure to tv crime dramas and perceptions of the criminal justice system / Susan H. Sarapin and Glenn G. Sparks -- Paramilitary patriots of the Cold War: women, weapons, and private warriors in the A-team and Airwolf / Charity Fox -- The more you know. Lisa and Phoebe, lone vegetarian icons: at odds with television's carnonormativity / Carrie Packwood Freeman -- Television and the environment: more screen-less green / Jennifer Ellen Good -- From Welby to McDreamy: what tv teaches us about doctors, patients, and the health care system / Katherine A. Foss -- The voice. Made impossible by viewers like you: the politics and poetics of Native American voices in US public television / Leighton C. Peterson -- "Real" black, "real" money: African American audiences on The real housewives of Atlanta / Gretta Moody -- He who has the gold makes the rules: Tyler Perry presents "The Tyler Perry way" / Danielle E. Williams -- Viewing 90210 from 12203: affluent tv teens influence a cohort of middle class women / Michelle Napierski-Prancl -- Futurama. The construction of taste: television and American home décor / Stylés I. Akira and Larry Ossei-Mensah -- Bordertown: manufacturing Mexicanness in reality television / Ariadne Alejandra Gonzalez -- Cyborgs in the newsroom: databases, cynicism and political irony in The daily show / Noah J. Springer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-423) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014004898
ISBN9780739187043 (cloth : alk. paper)