"Re-reading Popular Culture is a key guide to understanding the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture. It includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity." "Joke Hermes tackles a variety of media forms and texts, including sports, detective fiction and police series, and children's television and games. This is a fascinating and illuminating study of popular culture and its audience."--BOOK JACKET.

this book uses a series of case studies to show how popular media are important to us, as a source of pleasure and entertainment, but also in communicating about the world with others. Social media platforms have changed how we talk about what we like and dislike in our popular media use. ‘Cultural citizenship’ shows how these discussions speak to ’belonging’ and what we feel our rights and responsibilities are in today’s polarized world. Cultural Citizenship and Popular Culture is based on audience-led research and does not privilege textual analysis as a starting point for taking popular media use’s measure. Instead, it offers research tools to listen to others. This book offers scholars and students of media and creative industries a means to understand their professional position as one in which they engage with rather than assume to know what users of popular cultural texts and products think and feel.

Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed. This handy guide is divided into three parts: the first part, ‘Watching Post-Television’, offers ‘television’ as a shortcut to understanding today’s platform media and gives an introduction to key theoretical terms such as representation, identity and community. The second part, ‘Methods with Method’, introduces different methodological tools to study cross-media texts and practices from an audience-led perspective. With individual chapters covering ethnography, textual analysis and visual methodologies, this part also functions as a toolset and starting point for small research projects. The third part, ‘Methods in Action’, offers a variety of recent case studies to show how these methodological principles work in practice. Drawing on different genres from drama to sports, The Pocketbook of Audience Research gives a sense of what audience-led cross-media research can achieve. This concise, accessible book gives students, early-career researchers and creative professionals the tools to do useful and inspiring audience research, whether for a paper, a proposal or a market survey.

In welke werelden bewegen jongeren zich? Waar hechten zij waarde aan? Wat betekenen sociale media voor hen en hoe maken zij er gebruik van? Leefwerelden van jongeren gaat over het dagelijkse leven van jongeren: thuis, op school, met hun vrienden en als grootgebruikers van media en digitale cultuur. Het boek is geschreven vanuit het perspectief van jongeren, zichtbaar gemaakt via voorbeelden en illustraties uit (inter)nationaal wetenschappelijk onderzoek, berichtgeving in de (sociale) media en websites. Het eerste deel van het boek gaat over het leven van jongeren thuis. Hierbij wordt ingegaan op de rol van het gezin, vriendschappen, jeugdcultuur, uiterlijk, seks en liefde. Het tweede deel beschrijft het leven op school, een plek waar alle jongeren naartoe gaan en jongeren met andere achtergronden tegenkomen. In deel drie staat de rol van media en de digitale cultuur centraal. Hier gaat het over hoe jongeren hun levens vormgeven met behulp van ‘nieuwe’ en ‘oude’ media; en hoe die media onderwerp en aanstichter zijn van mythevorming en morele paniek over jongeren. Dit boek is bedoeld voor (toekomstige) professionals die te maken hebben met uiteenlopende groepen jongeren. Het is geschikt voor de hbo-opleidingen pedagogiek, social work, sociaal juridische dienstverlening en de lerarenopleidingen. Het boek is te koop bij Uitgeverij Coutinho.