Comprehensive analysis of both contemporary web-based culture and arts and the impact of the internet on international economics, politics and law. The new edition of Web.Studies incorporates not only the comprehensive analysis of Web-based culture and arts along with the effects of the internet on international economies, politics and law, but new chapters have been added focusing on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. Aspects of everyday life online are explored as well as art and commerce, global communities and the politics of internet access and activisim. It is an essential book for all students of Sociology, Media and Communication, studying the World Wide Web. 'It is a thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required for reading on many undergraduate studies courses.' - Peter Dean in Convergance, 2002 'Web.Studies sets the agenda for a new period of media research, one that gets to grips with the significance of new communications technologies and the global spaces in which they are so repidly developing. I believe that this book will help considerably to take media studies in new directions.' - Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Web.Studies (Arnold Publication)

Gauntlett, David

Horsley, Ross

Humor & Entertainment

Bloomsbury Academic

TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life

TV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period.Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of the most fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and life changes. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex and violence on television. A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes,  TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today.

Hill, Annette

Reference

Routledge

A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes, TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today.

Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Media, Gender and Identity

Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes:  a comparison of gender representations in the past and today, from James Bond to Ugly Betty an introduction to key theorists such as Judith Butler, Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault  an outline of creative approaches, where identities are explored with video, drawing, or Lego bricks a Companion Website with extra articles, interviews and selected links, at: www.theoryhead.com.

Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes: <ul>
<li>a comparison of gender representations in the past and today, from James Bond to Ugly Betty</li> <li>an introduction to key theorists such as Judith Butler, Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault </li> <li>an outline of creative approaches, where identities are explored with video, drawing, or Lego bricks</li> <li>a Companion Website with extra articles, interviews and selected links, at: www.theoryhead.com.
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</ul>

Making Is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity, from Diy and Knitting to Youtube and Web 2.0

In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark on the world, and to make connections.  During the previous century, the production of culture became dominated by professional elite producers. But today, a vast array of people are making and sharing their own ideas, videos, and other creative material online, as well as engaging in real-world crafts, art projects, and hands-on experiences. Gauntlett argues that we are seeing a shift from a ‘sit-back-and-be-told culture’ to a ‘making-and-doing culture’. People are rejecting traditional teaching and television, and making their own learning and entertainment instead. Drawing on evidence from psychology, politics, philosophy, and economics, he shows how this shift is necessary and essential for the happiness and survival of modern societies.

Making is Connecting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Polity

In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that through makingthings, people engage with the world and create connections witheach other. Both online and offline, we see that people want tomake their mark on the world, and to make connections. During the previous century, the production of culture becamedominated by professional elite producers. But today, a vast arrayof people are making and sharing their own ideas, videos, and othercreative material online, as well as engaging in real-world crafts,art projects, and hands-on experiences. Gauntlett argues that we are seeing a shift from a‘sit-back-and-be-told culture’ to a‘making-and-doing culture’. People are rejectingtraditional teaching and television, and making their own learningand entertainment instead. Drawing on evidence from psychology,politics, philosophy, and economics, he shows how this shift isnecessary and essential for the happiness and survival of modernsocieties.

Polity Pr

"David Gauntlett’s analysis of media effects research is still timely, impressively thorough, and yet a pleasure to read. Published in this edition with excellent new material about his creative new alternatives to traditional ‘effects’ studies, this book is a must-have package for media students." —Annette Hill, Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster
Television, movies, and the media have been blamed for every kind of social problem and antisocial act, and countless studies have set out to quantify their harmful effects. In Moving Experiences, David Gauntlett argues that much of this blame is misplaced and that the methodology used to justify it is deeply flawed. Screen media are a central part of modern social life and an important influence upon how we see the world, but their "effects" will necessarily be complex and indirect. And many of the ill effects attributed to screen media are really the result of more serious social problems.

Moving Experiences, Second Edition: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects

Movies

John Libbey Publishing

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Books by Gauntlett, David

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Web.Studies (Arnold Publication)

TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life

TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life

Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction

Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction

Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction

Media, Gender and Identity

Making is Connecting

Making Is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity, from Diy and Knitting to Youtube and Web 2.0

Moving Experiences, Second Edition: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects