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When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these kinds of questions, <b>Youth and Media</b> explains why young people are central to understanding critical issues in media studies and media education.
Understanding Global Media Industries: China, Reality Television and Media Governance
Understanding Global Media Industries: China, Reality Television and Media Governance
Global popular media – blockbuster movies, children's cartoons, prime-time soaps, reality television and the like – have worried nation states for a long time now. The controversies that broke out around the spectacular success of reality talent shows in China were the latest incarnation of fears about what happens when stories, ideas and images from one culture become popular in another. The fear has been that those ideas and images might also popularise the values of the authoring culture, and this is a big problem when content circulates between countries that have opposing political views.
So when reality talent shows like Super Girl were enthusiastically ...
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