Titlebook: Consumer Culture and the Media; Magazines in the Pub Mehita Iqani Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Allgemeines zur medizinischen Sonographie,n, and to bring together the key analytical themes explored in this book, this chapter takes as its focus the broader issue of how a research agenda in consumer culture and the media can be taken forward. Before doing so, it is necessary to briefly point out the specific contributions made to more discrete areas of scholarship.

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,Einführung und Aufgabenstellung, three concepts, drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives where necessary, in order to delineate an analytical framework for this study, as well as to contribute to theories of consumerism and the media more generally.

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Media in Consumer Culture: An Introduction,tally organized around a consumer economy. We live in the age of consumption; we live in the age of media. These features of modern life are particularly apparent in the urbanized global north: cities such as London, New York, Paris, Johannesburg and Shanghai are shaped by the abundance of media for

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The Public, Identity and Power in Mediated Consumer Culture,sive operations — as important as that project is in its own right. Precisely because media texts are so common and pervasive, and contribute so significantly to the repertoire of images and ideas that are collectively shaped into culture and individually harnessed into lifestyle and identity projec

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A Research Approach for Mediated Consumer Culture,ndscape characterizing consumer culture. The paradigm put forward in this book entails a combination of ethnographic methods, appropriated as a reflexive mode of data collection in mediated spaces of consumption, and socio-semiotic approaches, employed in order to analyse consumer texts and construc

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Glossiness in Hyperreal Celebrity Portraiture,e both constructed as such and made widely visible. Celebrities are both subjects and objects. Each celebrity is of course an individual human being who has achieved wide public recognition for a particular reason, such as exceptional sporting or creative talent. But celebrities are also immaterial

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,Sexiness and Selling: Consumerism’s Pornographic Imagination,orary media and culture. It is used broadly to describe not only individuals who are considered sexually attractive, but also a wide variety of commodities, particularly those that adorn or accentuate the body, and practices and experiences which are not directly related to sexual activity, such as