Media Theory and Research

Media Theory and Research
Annotated Bibliography
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Essay Title: ‘Contemporary Media Theories’
Source One: Jan-Noël, T., 2016. Transmedial narratology and contemporary media culture.
The paper aims to focus on the various subjects around the construction of stories portrayed in the
media. In the terms of films, comic movies and the videos, how the contemporary media plays a
role is discussed. The inter-cultural narratives across the media through literary narratives and film
strategies.
Source Two: Jungherr, A., Posegga, O. and An, J., 2019. Discursive power in contemporary media
systems: A comparative framework. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 24(4), pp.404-
425.
The paper focuses on the role of the hybrid contemporary media on the organizations and
individuals as wells as the flow of information creating a new transformation on the digital media.
The public is impacted hugely from such high degree of influence from the media often called the
‘black box of information’. There are relationships of power controlling the media in the name of
power creating distortion of facts on presenting to the public. The various actors have their roles in
the communication of materials and topics.
Source Three: Ng, E., 2017. Between text, paratext, and context: Queerbaiting and the
contemporary media landscape. Transformative Works and Cultures, 24.
The paper highlights the importance of the idea of queer baiting which creates a different
perception to the readers in terms of interactions of the viewer with the LGBTQ community and
the portrayal of them in the film industry. The contemporary media highlight the changes of
representing the LGBTQ characters and the sub-textual readings with the historical culture
contingency through re-shaping and making of media communication channel through the film
producer’s views.
Source Four: Hajrulla, V. and Harizaj, M., 2017. The Didactic Potentials of Films and
Contemporary Media in the EFL Classes. Annals of “tefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, p.31.
The paper discusses how the teachers should give importance to the children in the terms of media
portrayal of culture especially in the youngster’s lives. The experiences of the students are
required to shape their mental perceptions of the real world; this is where the contemporary media
play a big influence in their lives. In the English subject, the various usage of film and the
contemporary media resource are used to bring clarity and learn the foreign language in a better
way. The dialectic terms and the characters in the movie with connection to the theoretical themes
interconnected aid the teachers in the classroom for greater student learning experiences.

Source Five: Napoli, P.M., 2016. The audience as product, consumer, and producer in the
contemporary media marketplace. In Managing media firms and industries (pp. 261-275).
Springer, Cham.
The paper discusses how the contemporary media plays its function and role in the market of film
and media where the business of selling and buying of content to the audiences. The customers in
these marketplaces hold a main position with the advertisements creating huge influences on them.
The contemporary media through digital portals and interactive media provide the audience with
the opportunity to grab the content, to produce the creative content to other third party suppliers. In
this contemporary media marketplace, the consumers can be the producers, film makers and also
the people watching the movies through these media.
Source Six : Johnson, Q., 2018. Counter-Stereotypical Exemplars of Drug Users in Contemporary
Media: How Humanizing Efforts in Film and TV Positively Affect Attitudes Towards Drug Users.
The paper studies the effects of contemporary media in portraying the stereotypical usage of norms
and attitudes towards the drug users. The psychological concept and the mechanisms of the beliefs
communicated through the films show the symptoms as well as the prevention procedures to
mitigate the drug abuse. The conditions of the drug users are communicated to the audience
members through the films like Moonlight and also Orange is the Black by creating a counter-
effect on their mental conception of values on drug usage and their role in the society. The
stereotypical themes can be challenged through contemporary media.
Source Seven:
Herson, K., 2018. Mad Minds: Theorizing the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Mental Illness
in Contemporary Media Discourse. Arizona State University.
The paper discusses how the mental health issues can also be portrayed through contemporary
media especially through production and with regulating the subjects revolving around the inter-
sectional mental themes. The disability of female disability as well as political issues revolving
around such sensitive topics around the topic of race, gender and mental illness can come across
audience through the contemporary media. The procedure through which mental illness gets
produced, go through surveillance and regulated under the social and political contexts are focused
on the paper. The production and the negotiation of presentation of facts by the media with the
biasness towards mental health patients get featured. The emotional trauma and the various mental
health issues with disorders faced by the survivors in the USA and the sensitive issue of their
treatment cannot be better understood through usage of contemporary media.
Source Eight: Mitoma, G., 2017. Teaching the History and Contemporary Challenge of Human
Rights through Film. In Teaching Difficult History through Film (pp. 39-56). Routledge.
The paper discusses why the role of film is important in providing an effective strategy toward
integrating the human rights be it into the history or social studies classrooms. It also argues the
capacity of film towards the adaptation of abstract principles, remote in order to foster empathy
and promote understanding across the cultural difference, making it an important source of
human rights education. The paper also focuses on the ways that how the contemporary media
teaches about human rights about the films. The importance of issues like gender, race, culture,
attitudes, beliefs can be better identified and analyzed through the use of contemporary media