Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste "
English | ISBN: 1479809268 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1479809268 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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,
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