Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste (Critical Cultural Communication, Band 37)

Gray, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1479809985 / ISBN 13: 9781479809981

Published by NYU Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste (Critical Cultural Communication, Band 37)
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479809985
• ISBN 13: 9781479809981
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do

The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation?

Dislike-Minded draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship. The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre Bourdieu’s famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery. Instead, Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and other media, and why this dislike matters.

As we watch and listen through gritted teeth, Dislike-Minded listens to what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience research within communication, media, and cultural studies.

About the Author

Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Dislike-Minded, Show Sold Separately, Planet Digital (with Aswin Punathambekar and Adrienne Shaw), Reading Media (with Daphne Gershon), Fandom, Second Edition (with Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington), and Satire TV (with Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson).