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Signs of Time
US prime time television drama of the earlier broadcast era featured self-contained storylines and (mostly) amnesiac protagonists. This changed with the arrival of what television scholar Horace Newcomb termed cumulative narrative: Prime-time series of a new era adopted narrative features more typical for daytime soap opera, and leading characters began to remember where they came from. This study explores the organisational patterns and generic implications leading to the rise of cumulative storytelling. It also points to further venues of analysis for backstory narratives and diegetic memory in general.
»Love it or Loathe it«
Popular newspapers like the British »The Sun« and the German »Bild« regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsibility, political and social impact. At best, their reporting is rejected as trivial, vulgar and tasteless; at worst, it is deemed hazardous to the workings of democratic society. Yet, the papers are able to attract large audiences, and contribute significantly to the daily lives of millions of readers. This book looks at popular newspapers from an audience point of view. Examining the crucial relationship between news and entertainment, it provides timely empirical evidence for the values tabloids really have for readers and modern day Britain and Germany. Contradicting common myths and stereotypes, the book calls for fresh perspectives on the popular media and their audiences. With a foreword by Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden.
The Sociology of Arts and Markets
This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets. Highly relevant to almost any sociological exploration of the arts, this interaction has long been approached and studied. However, rapid and far-reaching economic changes have recently occurred. Through a number of new empirical case studies across multiple artistic, historic and geographical settings, this volume illuminates the developments of various art markets, and their sociological analyses. The contributions include chapters on artistic recognition and exclusion, integration and self-representation in the art market, sociocultural changes, the role of the gallery owner, and collectives, rankings, and constraints across the cultural industries. Drawing on research from Japan, Switzerland, France, Italy, China, the US, UK, and more, this rich and global perspective challenges current debates surrounding art and markets, and will be an important reference point for scholars and students across the sociology of arts, cultural sociology and culture economy.
Imperiled Whiteness
In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white nationalism and neo-Nazi movements in the Obama-to-Trump era. As politicians on the right stoked anxieties about whites “losing ground” and “being left behind,” media platforms turned whiteness into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace. Reading popular film and television franchises (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and The Walking Dead) through political flashpoints, such as debates over immigration reform, gun control, and Black Lives Matter protests, Ingram reveals how media cultivated feelings of white vulnerability and loss among white consumers. By exploring the convergence of entertainment, news, and social media in a digital networked environment, Ingram demonstrates how media’s renewed attention to “imperiled whiteness” enabled and sanctioned the return of overt white supremacy exhibited by alt-right groups in the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and the Capitol riots in 2021.
Mediensoziologie
Zielsetzung dieses (Lehr-)Buches ist neben einer "Spurensuche" nach den Ursprüngen mediensoziologischen Denkens eine konsequente Verknüpfung von Medien(-angeboten) mit soziologisch bedeutsamen Phänomenen. Thematisiert werden beispielsweise das Verhältnis von Medien und Macht, Medien und Identität, Medien und sozialer Ungleichheit, Medien und Kultur. Es soll - um eine Formulierung aus Max Webers Ideenskizze einer Zeitungs-Enquete zu paraphrasieren - gezeigt werden, dass es sich um ein "ungeheures [...] Gebiet soziologischer Arbeit" handelt.
Integration und Medien
Bei aller Mannigfaltigkeit der sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorien lässt sich ein gemeinsamer Begriff ausmachen, der sämtliche Theorieschulen oder -schwärme kennzeichnet: die zentrale Bedeutung des Terminus Kommunikation. Im Licht dieser Fundamentalkategorie und unter dem Eindruck der mediengesellschaftlichen Entwicklungsdynamik rücken mehr und mehr die Interdependenz zwischen dem Mediensystem und anderen Teilsystemen ausdifferenzierter Gesellschaften in den Fokus der Diskussionen.
About Raymond Williams
A collection of contemporary revisitings and applications of the work of Raymond Williams that historicizes and contextualizes his theories.
Zyklisch-serielle Narration
Untersucht wird die literarische Gattung Rahmenzyklus, die sich im Orient (1001 Nacht) und stark in der deutschen Romantik (Goethe, Brentano, Hauff u. a.), im Fortsetzungsroman, in der Kino-, Radio- und TV-Serie findet. In Einzelanalysen literarischer Texte und TV-Serien wird die erstaunliche Kontinuität des Motivs des geselligen Erzählens gegen den Tod nachgewiesen.
Handbuch Kultursoziologie
Die Vielfalt kultursoziologischer Ansätze, Diskurse, Arbeitsfelder und Methoden wird in diesem Handbuch kompakt dargestellt. Geboten wird damit die Möglichkeit zur Orientierung innerhalb des heterogenen Feldes der Kultursoziologie. Unterschiedliche Positionen und das mit ihnen jeweils verbundene Verständnis von ‚Kultur‘ werden sichtbar gemacht und die Leser_innen zur weiterführenden Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Forschungsfeld eingeladen. Band 1 des Handbuchs widmet sich dem Begriff der Kultur, der Kontextualisierung des Themenfeldes ‚Kultursoziologie‘ im interdisziplinären Umfeld, seiner Entwicklung und gegenwärtigen Ausformung in unterschiedlichen Weltregionen sowie zentralen kultursoziologischen Autor_innen.
