- Contemporary Theorists Summary Knowledge Mat Steve Neale David Gauntlett Clay Shirky Liesbet Van Zoonen

Henry Jenkins David Hesmondhalgh Bell Hooks Judith Butler

© November 2018 The PiXL Club Ltd. All rights reserved. This resource is strictly for the use of member schools for as long as they remain members of The PiXL Club Ltd. Theorist: Bell Hooks Theorist: Liesbet Van Zoonen Theorist: Clay Shirky Theorist: David Hesmondhalgh

Theory: Feminist media and cultural Theory: Feminist Media theory Theory: The end of the audience Theory: The Power of the Culture theory Industries Key terms: Construction and discourse, Key terms: Collaborative culture, Key terms: Post-modern representation, theories of transmission, creativity and collective action Key terms: Creative economy & gender, ethnicity and capitalism representations global media cultural production In a nutshell: Shirky has researched In a nutshell: Hooks argues that black In a nutshell: Van Zoonen explores and written about technologies In a nutshell: Exploring issues around women have been oppressed within society the ways in which feminist theory and and how they have enabled political and economic power and for the past four centuries, focusing on research contribute to the role the media networks between people allowing them control, Hesmondhalgh is interested in issues between race and class, she argues plays in the construction of gender within to share and connect with each other. how the culture industries operate and that the two are closely linked together a society. He also discusses the process of mass- how digital technologies have changed within the media and society. amateurisation of media production. and shaped creative industries within Her key book is entitled: Feminist Media in the media. Her key book is entitled: Feminism Studies. His key book is entitled: Here Comes is for Everybody. Everybody. His key book is entitled: The Cultural Theorist: Industries Theorist: Steve Neale Theory: Fandom and changing audiences for media products Contemporary Theorists Knowledge Mat Theory: Genre theory Key terms: Participatory culture, and Key terms: Repetition and difference, trans-media storytelling Theorist: David Gauntlett Theorist: Judith Butler genre discourses and practices In a nutshell: Jenkins explores the Theory: Gender, Identity & Representation Theory: Feminist and Gender Formation In a nutshell: Neale is interested in impact of new media technology the concept of genre and the and global media on audiences. His Key terms: New Media Technologies, Key terms: Gender performance, gender importance of it within Hollywood transmedia storytelling refers to Creativity and Media 2.0 fluidity, binary views cinema. He has written about the nature how media producers have created and range of Hollywood films, exploring ‘worlds’ for audiences to engage in In a nutshell: Gauntlett writes about the In a nutshell: Butler writes about the the social and cultural significance of that work together to tell the story of a way the Media offers audiences guidance construction of gender within the media, Hollywood’s genres. He argues genre media text/product. These worlds are around shaping cultural identities. He argues she argues that historically feminism is an important factor in the success of enhanced through and ‘modern media is encouraging the overthrow grouped women together with shared conglomerate produced the participatory culture that they have of traditions which kept people within limiting characteristics, reinforcing a binary films, recognising the need for facilitated. He regularly posts on his compartments’. He sees the Media as a view between . She argues that repetition and difference within genres. blog: www.henryjenkins.org force for change within society, through its gender is a fluid construction that shifts representations of different groups within and changes in different contexts, seeing His key book is entitled: Genre His key book is entitled: Convergence society. gender as a performance. and Hollywood Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. His key book is entitled: ‘Media, Her key book is entitled: Gender Trouble. Gender and Identity’.

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