HANKS, W. F. 1989. “Text and Textuality”. Annual Review of Anthropology 18: 95-127. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570%281989%292%3A18%3C95%3ATAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

HERMAN, Edward S, and CHOMSKY, Noam. 1988. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York : Pantheon Books. [UCCB P 95.82 U6 H47 1988] [ON RESERVE]
Publisher Comments:
“In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.”

HINE, Christine. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact
3. The Virtual Objects of Ethnography, pp. 41-66[ON RESERVE]
4. The Making of a Virtual Ethnography
5. Time, Space and Technology
6. Authenticity and Identity in Internet Contexts
7. Reflection

INNESS, Sherrie A. 1999. Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [UCCB P 94.5 W65 I56 1999] [ON RESERVE]
Publisher Comments:
“Tough girls are everywhere these days. Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in the films, television series, advertisements, and comic books of recent decades. In Tough Girls, Sherrie A. Inness explores the changing representations of women in all forms of popular media and what those representations suggest about shifting social mores. She begins her examination of tough women in American popular culture with three popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s--The Avengers, Charlie's Angels, and The Bionic Woman--and continues through such contemporary pieces as a recent ad for Calvin Klein jeans and current television series such as The X-files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Although all these portrayals show women who can take care of themselves in ways that have historically been seen as uniquely male, they also variously undercut women's toughness. She argues that even some of the strongest depictions of women have perpetuated women's subordinate status, using toughness in complicated ways to break or bend gender stereotypes while simultaneously affirming them.”

INTINTOLI, Michael James. 1984. Taking Soaps Seriously: The WorId of GUIDING LIGHT. New York: Praeger.
FULL TEXT available online at: http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jruby/wava/soaps/

IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs). 2003. Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology. Indigenous Affairs, 2. (The articles contained in this collection are not available online, but a copy is available on Reserve. Articles include the following: International, Paths of Indigenous Cyber-Activism, by Kyra Landzelius; Americas, Perspectives on the Indigenous Tradition / New Technology Interface, by Greg Young-Ing; The Zapatista Rebellion and the Use of Technology: Indian Women Online? by Marisa Belausteguigoitia; Weaving Tapestries of Solidarity with Virtual Thread. Information and Communication Technologies at the Service of Grassroots Indigenous Women in Bolivia, by Nidia Bustillos Rodríguez; Caribbean Aboriginals Online: Digitized Culture, Networked Representation, by Maximilian C. Forte; Navajo Cyber-Sovereignty, by Frances Vitali and Jean Whitehorse; Arctic, Samenet - The Sámi Information and Communication Network, by Michael Kuhmunen.)

JEFFREY, Liss. N.d. “Rethinking Audiences for Cultural Industries: Implications for Canadian Research”.
http://media.ankara.edu.tr/~erdogan/jeffrey.html

JENKINS, Alan. 1986. “Disappearing World Goes to China: A Production Study of Anthropological Films”. Anthropology Today 2 (3): 6-13. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0268-540X%28198606%292%3A3%3C6%3ADWGTCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I

JOHNSON, A. J. "A New Understanding of Culture and Communication: The Impact of Technology on Indigenous Peoples--A Pathfinder". (This resource points to locations on the web where one can find materials addressing the following questions: Where can I find sources that give a general overview of the effect of technology on indigenous peoples? What uses of new technology are most beneficial to indigenous groups? What are some problems Native Americans have encountered in gaining access to telecommunications technology, and what solutions are being explored? How have indigenous people used new technology to preserve, promote and teach their history and culture? How has communication between tribe members or members of different indigenous groups changed due technology? What are some organizations and other resources that promote utilization of technology in indigenous communities?)

JONES, Steve G. 1999. “Studying the Net: Intricacies and Issues”. In Steve Jones (ed), Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net, pp. 1-28. London: Sage. [ON RESERVE]

JONES, Steve G. 1998. “The Internet and its Social Landscape”. In Steve G. Jones (ed), Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety, Pp. 7-35. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [ON RESERVE]

JONES, Steve (ed). 1999. Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. London: Sage.
Contents:
Introduction: Forests, Trees and Internet Research, by James T. Costigan
Chapter 1: Doing Internet Research, by Steve Jones[ON RESERVE]
Chapter 2: Complementary Explorative Data Analysis: The Reconciliation of Quantitative and Qualitative Principles, by Fay Sudweeks and Simeon J. Simoff
Chapter 3: Recontextualizing "Cyberspace": Methodological Considerations for Online Research, by Lori Kendall
Chapter 4: Studying Online Social Networks, by Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornwaite, and Barry Wellman
Chapter 5: Cybertalk and the Method of Instances, by Norman K. Denzin
Chapter 6: Configuring As a Mode of Rhetorical Analysis, by James J. Sosnoski
Chapter 7: From Paper-and-Pencil to Screen-and-Keyboard: Toward a Methodology for Survey Research on the Internet, by Diane F. Witmer, Robert W. Colman ,Sandra Lee Katzman
Chapter 8: Measuring Internet Audiences: Patrons of an Online Art Museum, by Margaret McLaughlin, Steve Goldberg, Nicole Ellison, and Jason Lucas
Chapter 9: Analyzing the Web: Directions and Challenges, by Ananda Mitra and Elisa Cohen
Chapter 10: There is a there there: Notes toward a definition of cybercommunity, by Jan Fernback
Chapter 11: Researching and Creating Community Networks, by Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen
Chapter 12: Beyond Netiquette: The Ethics of doing naturalistic discourse research on the Internet, by Barbara F. Sharf
Chapter 13: Thinking the Internet: Cultural Studies vs. The Millennium, by Jonathan Sterne

KARIM, Karim H. 2000. The Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence. New York: Black Rose Books. [UCCB BP 52 K37 2000] [ON RESERVE]
Contents:
Introduction http://www.web.net/blackrosebooks/islamic2.htm
Chapter 1: Violence and the Media
Chapter 2: Jihad
Chapter 3: Orientalist Imaginaries
Chapter 4: Assassins, Kidnappers, Hostages
Chapter 5: The Rites of Reporting a Hijacking
Chapter 6: Dispatches from the Holy Land
Chapter 7: Constructing a Post-Soviet Threat
Chapter 8: Returning to a Millennial Struggle
Chapter 9: Covering Conflicts in Former Communist Territories
Chapter 10: Towards Informed and Conscientious Reporting
Publisher Comments:
“In an age when globalization is supposedly drawing all humanity together, Islam is viewed as fomenting a clash of civilizations. Terrorism, hostage-taking, hijacking and religious wars have become synonymous with the identity of Muslims and these narratives are supported by North-based media networks which have maintained global hegemony. The Islamic Peril explores the lack of historical and cultural understanding in the mass media, such as the deeply contested ideas about jihad among Muslims. It studies coverage of conflicts involving Muslims in the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and the West, and demonstrates the resilience of core European images of Muslims that have continued to recur in depictions of Islam for over a millennium. Karim believes that the gulf between Islam and the West must be bridged and that the media have an ethical obligation to provide coverage while avoiding generalizations and stereotypes.”

KEITH, Michael C. 1995. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. [UCCB PN 1991.8 I53 K45 1995] [ON RESERVE]
See especially:
Ch. 2, Arrow with Voices: Evolution of Native Stations, 15-26
Ch. 5, Waves for Kekewh: Impact of Indigenous Broadcasting, 97-112

KITCH, Carolyn L. 2001. The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. [UCCB P 94.5 W652 U655 2001] [ON RESERVE]
Contents:
Introduction  http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/kitch_girl.html
Chapter 1. From True Woman to New Woman
Chapter 2. The American Girl
Chapter 3. Dangerous Women and the Crisis of Masculinity
Chapter 4. Alternative Visions
Chapter 5. Patriotic Images
Chapter 6. The Flapper
Chapter 7. The Modern American Family
Chapter 8. The Advertising Connection
Publisher Comments:
“From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture. Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930 as a time when the first wave of feminism intersected with the rise of new technologies and media for the reproduction and dissemination of visual images. Access to suffrage, higher education, the professions, and contraception broadened women's opportunities, but the images found on magazine covers emphasized the role of women as consumers: suffrage was reduced to spending, sexuality to sexiness, and a collective women's movement to individual choices of personal style. In the 1920s, Kitch argues, the political prominence of the New Woman dissipated, but her visual image pervaded print media. With seventy-five photographs of cover art by the era's most popular illustrators, The Girl on the Magazine Cover shows how these images created a visual vocabulary for understanding femininity and masculinity, as well as class status. Through this iconic process, magazines helped set cultural norms for women, for men, and for what it meant to be an American, Kitch contends.”

KOTTAK, Conrad Phillip. 1990. Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
Ch. 9, Television’s Social Impact, 134-152. [ON RESERVE]

LENT, John A., ed. 1980. Case Studies of Mass Media in the Third World. Williamsburg, Va. : Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary. [UCCB HN 980 C35 1980] [ON RESERVE]
Contents:
Nichols J.S. The Havana hustle.
Knudson, J. Treatment of the Indian in the Bolivian press.
Pollock, J.C. Reporting on critical events abroad.
Willer, T.F. Perceptions of women in Singapore.
Parker, E. The Malaysian elections of 1974.
Ugboajah, F. and Sobowale, I. The press in West Africa.
Lee, W.L. Television programming in the sixties.
Shaheen, J.G. Television programming in selected Middle East nations.

LIPSITZ, George. 1986. “The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs”. Cultural Anthropology 1 (4): 355-387. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0886-7356%28198611%291%3A4%3C355%3ATMOMFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

MACHIN, David. 2002. Ethnographic Research for Media Studies. London: Hodder Arnold.
Contents:
Introduction: what is ethnography? 1-16
Part I Ethnography: observing people in culture
1. Ethnography in anthropology: from magic to the media, 17-32
2. How the ethnographer should view culture, 33-49
3. Ethnography in the city: the Chicago School, 50-65
4. Research approaches to the mass media, 66-80
5. How good is ethnography compared to other methodologies? 81-92
Part II Ethnographic research in media studies
6. Popular music, 93-96
7. Watching television in the home, 99-102
8. News gathering, 103-107
9. Why we watch soaps, 108-113
10. Adoring film stars, 114-122
11. Using the Internet, 123-130
Part III The reassembled ethnography: data analyis
12. An anthropological approach to a news spectacle, 131-140
13. Understanding readers' newspaper allegiance: newspapers as an indication of character, 141-154
14. The ethnographic gaze in non-ethnographic research: role play, 155-164
15. Carrying out an ethnographic study, 165-170

MANKEKAR, Purnima. 1993. “National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City”. American Ethnologist 20 (3): 543-563. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199308%2920%3A3%3C543%3ANTAGLA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
Abstract:
Recent anthropological research highlights the significance of mass media in the construction of identities. This article focuses on the ways in which men and women, located in specific sociocultural contexts, interpret entertainment serials shown on Indian television. It then proceeds to explore the place of the viewers' active engagement with television in terms of their constitution as national and gendered subjects. [television audiences, subjectivity, gender, nationalism, India]

MANN, Chris, and STEWART, Fiona. 2000. Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online. London: Sage.
Ch. 4, “Introducing Online Methods”, 65-98 [ON RESERVE]
Publisher Comments:
"Communication and Qualitative Research is the first textbook to examine the impact of Internet technology on qualitative research methods. Drawing on many pioneering studies using computer-mediated communication (CMC), the authors show how online researchers can employ Internet-based qualitative methods to collect rich, descriptive, contextually-situated data. They discuss the methodological, practical and theoretical considerations associated with such methods as in-depth online interviewing, virtual focus groups, and participant observation in virtual communities. This is a comprehensive and practical guide that:

• Reviews online research practice and basic Internet technology

• Looks in detail at the skills required by the online researcher

• Examines the ethical, confidentiality, security, and legal issues involved in online research

• Considers the theoretical challenges surrounding data collected in a "virtual venue

• Addresses the social and cultural impact of researching online through a discussion of power, gender, and identity issues in the virtual world"

McLUHAN, Marshall. “The Galaxy Preconfigured” and “The Medium is the Message”
Available at: http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/mediatheory/essays/13-mcluhan-03.pdf

MICHAELS, Eric. 1985. “Constraints on Knowledge in an Economy of Oral Information”. Current Anthropology 26 (4): 505-510. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28198508%2F10%2926%3A4%3C505%3ACOKIAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H

MICHAELS, Eric. 1982. TV Tribes. PhD Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin.
FULL TEXT available online at: http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jruby/wava/eric/

MILKIE, Melissa A. 1999. “Social Comparisons, Reflected Appraisals, and Mass Media: The Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black and White Girls' Self-Concepts”. Social Psychology Quarterly 62 (2): 190-210. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0190-2725%28199906%2962%3A2%3C190%3ASCRAAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
Abstract:
Content analyses and experimental studies often indicate strong, usually negative effects of media on the self In contrast, qualitative work suggests that individuals may exercise considerable influence in selecting, interpreting and criticizing media content. This literature, however, does not adequately consider or specify how "interpreted" media content still might affect self-concept negatively. Incorporating social comparison and reflected appraisal processes, this study shows how media affect self-esteem indirectly, despite criticism, through beliefs about how others use and are affected by media. In-depth interviews with 60 white and minority girls, complemented by quantitative measures from a larger study, help to clarify how girls are affected by prominent images of females pervasive in media. Most girls see the images as unrealistic; many prefer to see "real" girls. White girls, despite their criticism, are still harmed by the images because they believe that others find the images important and that others in the local culture, especially boys, evaluate them on the basis of these images. Minority girls do not identify with "white" media images, nor believe that significant others are affected by them; thus their critical interpretations succeed in thwarting negative feelings. The study increases our understanding of media effects on the self-concept and suggests that researchers consider how media images may be part of social comparison and reflected appraisal processes.

MILLER, Daniel, and SLATER, Don. 2000. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford: Berg.
Contents:
Ch. 1, Conclusions, 1-26
Ch. 2, Trinidad and the Internet – An Overview, 27-54
Ch. 3, Relationships, 55-84
Ch. 4, Being Trini and Representing Trinidad, 85-116
Ch. 5, The Political Economy of the Internet, 117-144
Ch. 6, Doing Business Online, 145-172
Ch. 7, Religion, 173-194
Publisher Comments:
“This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the social, political and cultural contexts which account for the contemporary Internet experience. From cybercafes to businesses, from middle class houses to squatters settlements, from the political economy of Internet provision to the development of ecommerce, the authors have gathered a wealth of material based on fieldwork in Trinidad. Looking at the full range of Internet media -- including websites, email and chat -- the book brings out unforeseen consequences and contradictions in areas as varied as personal relations, commerce, nationalism, sex and religion. This is the first book-length treatment of the impact of the Internet on a particular region. By focusing on one place, it demonstrates the potential for a comprehensive approach to new media. It points to the future direction of Internet research, proposing a detailed agenda for comparative ethnographic study of the cultural significance and effects of the Internet in modern society. Clearly written for the non-specialist reader, it offers a detailed account of the complex integration between on-line and off-line worlds. An innovative tie-in with the book's own website provides copious illustrations amounting to over 2,000 web-pages that bring the material right to your computer.”

Mixed Messages: Portrayals of Women in Media: Video Recording. [FILM: UCCB NFB 1178]

NAKAMURA, Lisa. 2002. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. London: Routledge.
Contents:
Introduction, xi-xix
1. Cybertyping and The Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction, 1-30 [ON RESERVE]
2. Head Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphical Chatspaces, 31-60
3. Race in the Construct and the Construction of Race: The 'Consensual Hallucination' of Multiculturalism in the Fictions of Cyberspace, 61-86
4. "Where Do You Want to Go Today?": Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality, 87-100
5. Menu-Driven Identities: Making Race Happen Online, 101-136
Conclusion, 137-146.
See also: http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/nakamura.html
Publisher Comments
“Cyberspace entices us with the promise of an online utopia--a web of fluid identities and infinite possibilities. When we look for signs of freedom online--anywhere from chat room conversations to cyberpunk fiction--we are almost inevitably urged toward "liberation" from our bodies and their "restrictive" attributes like race, gender, and age. But cyberculture critic Lisa Nakamura insists that the Internet is a place where race matters. Race itself may not be fixed or finite, but Nakamura argues that racial stereotypes-or "cybertypes"-are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in virtual roles like Asian_Geisha and Alatinolover. Web directories sharply narrow racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. In Cybertypes, Nakamura looks at what happened to race when it went online, and how our ideas about race continue to be shaped and reshaped every time we log on. Examining all facets of our everyday online experience from Internet advertising to email jokes, Nakamura shows that the postmodern ideal of fluid selves made possible by network technology is not necessarily subversive, progressive, or liberating. The harder race is pushed off-line, the greater the consequences in real life for people of color. A lively and provocative discussion Cybertypes offers a valuable new way of thinking about race and identity in the information age.”

National Film Board of Canada. 1992. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. Montréal: Necessary Illusions ; National Film Board of Canada. 2 videocassettes (167 min.) [UCCB NFB 397]
Pt. 1. Thought control in a democratic society -- (95 min.)
Pt. 2. Activating dissent (72 min.)

National Film Board of Canada. 1989. Media and Society. Montreal, P.Q. : National Film Board of Canada. 3 video cassettes (VHS) (230 min.) [UCCB NFB 406]
Vol. 1. Advertising and consumerism (revised version)
Vol. 2. Images of women
Vol. 3. Cultural sovereignty, Shaping information.

O’BRIEN, Jodi. 1999. “Writing in the Body: Gender (Re)Production in Online Interaction”. In Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock (eds), Communities in Cyberspace, pp. 76-106.London: Routledge. [ON RESERVE]

O’BRIEN, Susie, and SZEMAN, Imre. 2004. Popular Culture: A User’s Guide. Scarborough, Ont: Thomson Nelson.
Contents:
Chapter One: Introducing Popular Culture
Chapter Two: The History of Popular Culture
Chapter Three: Representation and the Construction of Social Reality, 57-94 [ON RESERVE]
Chapter Four: The Production of Popular Culture
Chapter Five: The Consuming Life
Chapter Six: Identity and the Body
Chapter Seven: Identity and Community
Chapter Eight: Subcultures and Countercultures
Chapter Nine: Globalization and Popular Culture
Chapter Ten: Why Study Popular Culture? A Brief History of Cultural Studies

O'SULLIVAN, Tim, ed. 1997. The Media Studies Reader. 1997. Abingdon, Oxon: Hodder Arnold.
Contents:
Introduction
Section 1: The Media and Modern Life
Section 2: Stereotypes and Representations
Sections 3: Audience and Reception
Section 4: Producers and Production

PACCAGNELLA, L. 1997. “Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3(1). Available at: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue1/paccagnella.html

PEDELTY, Mark. 1993. “News Photography and Indigenous People: An ‘Encounter’ in Guatemala.” Visual Anthropology Review 6(3): 285-301.

POSTER, Mark. 1998. “Virtual Ethnicity: Tribal Identity in an Age of Global Communications”. In Steven G. Jones (ed), Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community, Pp. 184-211.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [ON RESERVE]

POSTER, Mark. 1990. The Mode of Information: Postructuralism and Social Context. Cambridge: Polity Press. “Introduction: Words without Things”, 1-20. [ON RESERVE]

POWDERMAKER, Hortense. 1950. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Boston: Little, Brown.
FULL TEXT available online at: http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jruby/wava/powder/

PRIEST, Susanna Hornig. Doing Media Research: An Introduction. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996. [UCCB P 91.3 P75 1996] [ON RESERVE]
Contents:

Introduction

Part 1, Roots: Social Science Foundations

Ch. 1, A Philosophy of Social “Science”, 3-16

Ch. 2, Anthropology and the Range of Human Experience, 17-32

Ch. 3, Psychology and the Experimental Method, 33-52

Ch. 4, Sociological Study of Organizations and Institutions, 53-72

Part 2, Digging Up Answers: Asking Questions and Collecting Data

Ch. 5, Developing a Research Question, 73-86

Ch. 6, Counting: A Quantitative Methods Primer, 87-102

Ch. 7, Interpreting: Introducing Qualitative Methods, 103-118

Part 3, Toolbox: Quantitative Analytical Techniques

Ch. 8, Describing a Data Set, 119-132

Ch. 9, From Sample to Population, 133-144

Ch. 10, Testing Hypotheses, 145-160

Ch. 11, Explorations, 161-180

Part 4, Cookbook: Analyzing Qualitative Data

Ch. 12, Qualitative Research Revisited, 181-194

Ch. 13, Writing Descriptive Summaries, 195-206

Part 5, Branching Out: The Wider World of Research

Ch. 14, Research Horizons, 207-222

Ch. 15, Writing the Research Report, 223-230

ROFEL, Lisa B. 1994. “ ‘Yearnings’: Televisual Love and Melodramatic Politics in Contemporary China”. American Ethnologist 21 (4): 700-722.
Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199411%2921%3A4%3C700%3A%22TLAMP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
Abstract:
To trace the complex "passion for meaning" (Barthes) that animated the consumption and interpretation of Yearnings, a television melodrama that aired in China just a year and a half after the Tiananmen demonstrations, requires moving beyond a dichotomy between "the political" and "the popular." This article argues that Yearnings became a nationwide controversy because it allegorizes post-Tiananmen dilemmas of national identity in relation to socialism and in relation to the diverse class and gender positionings of the characters as well as the viewers. Textualist and reader-response analyses of popular culture need to be broadened by an ethnographic approach that asks sociodiscursive questions about the operations of popular culture as a site for the constitution of national subjects, one that offers complicated possibilities for oppositional practices. [China, national identity, popular culture, gender and class, politics of representations, the state]

RODGERS, Susan. 1986. “Batak Tape Cassette Kinship: Constructing Kinship Through the Indonesian National Mass Media”. American Ethnologist 13 (1): 23-42.
Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28198602%2913%3A1%3C23%3ABTCKCK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
Abstract:
As Leach noted in Political Systems of Highland Burma, Southeast Asia's Kachin-type kinship systems (with asymmetrical marriage alliance between wife-givers and their indebted wife-receivers) tend to be constructed in interaction with neighboring cultures. This paper examines one contemporary example of that for Sumatra's Angkola Batak. Focusing on the way national communication media shape local kinship ideas (and foster notions of "culture" and "kinship"), commercially produced Angkola tape dramas on family themes are examined as art forms providing Angkola with new images of human relationship. [kinship, Indonesia, orality and literacy, mass media, asymmetrical alliance]

RUHLEDER, K. 2000. “The Virtual Ethnographer: Fieldwork in Distributed Electronic Environments”. Field Methods 12(1): 3-17.

SCHRODER, Kim; DROTNER, Kirsten; KLINE, Steve; MURRAY, Catherine. Researching Audiences. 2003. Abingdon, Oxon: Hodder Arnold.
Contents:
Section One: Contours of Audiences
Ch. 1, Approaching media audiences, 3-25 [ON RESERVE]
Ch. 2, The history and divisions of audience research: the received view, 26-43
Ch. 3, Methodological pluralism: the meta-theoretical foundations of discursive realism, 44-56
Section Two: The Ethnographic Approach to Audiences
Ch. 4, Audience ethnography in practice: between talk, text and action, 57-62
Ch. 5, Media ethnography: defining the field, 63-86
Ch. 6, The ethnographic toolbox: participant observation, 87-104
Section Three: Audience Reception Research
Ch. 7, Reception research in practice: researching media meanings through talk, 105-120
Ch. 8, Reception research: defining the field, 121-142
Ch. 9, The reception research toolbox: the qualitative interview, 143-172
Section Four: Foundations of Quantitative Audience Research
Introduction: the historical legacy of the philosophy of science, 173-179
Ch. 10, Towards a basic toolbox for quantitative researchers, 180-204
Section Five: Survey Research on Audiences
Ch. 11, Audience surveys in practice: from social context to numbers and back again, 205-224
Ch. 12, Audience surveys: defining the field, 225-244
Ch. 13, The audience survey toolbox: the questionnaire as lens, 245-278
Section Six: Experimental Audience Research
Ch. 14, Experimental audience research in practice: conceptualizing effects, 279-291
Ch. 15, Experimental audience research: Defining the field, 292-321
Ch. 16, The experimental audience research toolbox: the controlled experiment, 322-346
Section Seven: The Dual Challenge of 'Convergence' in Audience Research
Introduction: the dual challenge, 347-348
Ch. 17, Convergence of methodologies: rethinking methodological pluralism, 349-365
Ch. 18, Convergence of media: towards a new sense of 'audience', 366-378

SHADE, Leslie Regan. “The Internet and Social Movements”.
Available at: http://www.mediascapes.nelson.com/TheInternetandSocialMovements.pdf

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SNYDER, Jack, and BALLENTINE, Karen. 1996. “Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas”. International Security 21 (2): 5-40.
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http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-2889%28199623%2921%3A2%3C5%3ANATMOI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V

SPITULNIK, Debra. 1993. “Anthropology and Mass Media”. Annual Review of Anthropology 22: 293-315.
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STRATTON, Jon. 2000. “Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture”. In David Bell and Barbare M. Kennedy (eds), The Cybercultures Reader, Pp. 721-731. London: Routledge. [ON RESERVE]

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THUSSU, Daya K. 1998. Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance. Abingdon, Oxon: Hodder Arnold.
Contents:
Globalization of Electronic Empires
Global Media – A Global Public Sphere?
Debating Media Globalization
Global Media and Local Resistance

THWAITES, Tony; DAVIS, Lloyd; and, MULES, Warwick. 2002. Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach.  New York: Palgrave.
Contents:
Introduction: Approaching Cultural and Media Studies
Ch. 1, Some Aspects of Signs, 9-28
Ch. 2, Signs and Systems, 29-47[ON RESERVE]
Ch. 3, Interactions of Signs, 48-76
Ch. 4, Texts and Textualities, 77-95
Ch. 5, Genre and Intertextuality, 96-116
Ch. 6, Narrative, 117-136
Ch. 7, Discourse and Medium, 137-157
Ch. 8, Ideology, 158-179
Ch. 9, Systems and Strategies, 180-212
Ch. 10, Other Approaches, Other Contexts, 213-223

TRAUBE, Elizabeth G. 1996. “The Popular" in American Culture”. Annual Review of Anthropology 25: 127-151.
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Abstract:
This review contrasts the relative lack of interest in "popular culture" within anthropology with the close, increasingly critical attention this concept has received within cultural studies. Rejecting both a production-oriented model of a manipulative mass culture imposed from above and a reception-oriented model of an expressive culture of the people, cultural studies scholars broke with essentialized conceptions and redefined the popular in Gramscian terms, as a zone of contestation, a site where the struggle for hegemony unfolds. The review uses this approach to relate the production of popular culture to class formation in the United States. Against overemphasis on the ideological effectivity of popular culture and a revisionist tendency to redefine it in affirmative, politically essentialized terms, the review suggests that contradictions and instabilities characterize all stages of the popular cultural circuit: commodity, text, and lived culture.

TURKLE, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Contents:
Introduction: Identity in the Age of the Internet, 9-28 [ON RESERVE]
I. The Seductions of the Interface
1. A Tale of Two Aesthetics
2. The Triumph of Tinkering
II. Of Dreams and Beasts
3. Making a Pass at a Robot
4. Taking Things at Interface Value
5. The Quality of Emergence
6. Artificial Life as the New Frontier
III. On the Internet
7. Aspects of the Self
8. TinySex and Gender Trouble
9. Virtuality and its Discontents
10. Identity Crisis

TURNER, Terence. 1992. “Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video”. Anthropology Today 8 (6): 5-16.
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WARDRIP-FRUIN, Noah, and MONTFORT, Nick. 2003. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

WEIMANN, Gabriel. 1994. The Theater of Terror: Mass Media and International Terrorism. New York: Longman. [PN 4784 T45 W45 1994]

WEINER, James F. 1997. “Televisualist Anthropology: Representation, Aesthetics, Politics”. Current Anthropology 382 (Apr): 197-235. Stable URL (or go to UCCB Library website, E-resources by title, JSTOR, login and search for item by title):
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WELLMAN, Barry, and GULIA, Milena. 1999. “Virtual Communities as Communities: Net Surfers Don’t Ride Alone”. In Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock (eds), Communities in Cyberspace, pp. 167-194. London: Routledge. [ON RESERVE]

WEST, Harry G., and FAIR, Jo Ellen. 1993. “Development Communication and Popular Resistance in Africa: An Examination of the Struggle over Tradition and Modernity through Media”. African Studies Review 36 (1): 91-114.
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WESTON, Mary Ann. 1996. Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. [UCCB PN 4888 I52 W47 1996] [ON RESERVE]
Contents:
Ch. 1, Indians, Images, and the News Media
Ch. 2, The 1920s: Assimilation versus Cultural Pluralism
Ch. 3, The 1930s: In New Deal Legislation, Reform Meets Reality
Ch. 4, World War II: Braves on the Warpath
Ch. 5, The 1950s: Termination and Relocation
Ch. 6, The 1960s and 1970s: Direct Action for Self-Determination
Ch. 7, The 1980s and 1990s: Talking Back to the Media

WILSON, Samuel. M., and PETERSON, Leighton C. 2002. “The Anthropology of Online Communities”. Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 449-67.

WORTH, Sol, and ADAIR, John. 1972. Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
FULL TEXT available online: http://isc.temple.edu/TNE/