Media and the Politics of Offence
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"This valuable collection of essays helps to foster a more sophisticated approach to important questions of offensiveness in public discourse. Situating offence in relation to structures of power, the book is diverse in its empirical cases and analytical approaches; takes us beyond westernised contexts as well as including them; and deals with a range of different forms of expression, representation and practice." (Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK)"This collection is both timely and extremely welcome in a climate where issues of offence have become of central political importance. Wide-ranging in its scope, the book provides an accessible introduction to the contemporary entanglements ofmedia, offence, controversy, civility and affect." (Feona Attwood, Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media, Middlesex University, UK)
"This is a significant and timely collection exploring the knotty business of mediated offence in contemporary political landscapes.. A must-read for scholars and students in media and communications, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and political science." (Sharon Lockyer, Brunel University London, UK)
"This multi-disciplinary volume highlights the increasingly central use of offence as a communicative resource for taking a stance, staging protests, silencing others and gaining a voice, combining classic thinkers such as Goffman with up-to-the-minute case studies. A must-read for divisive times." (Caroline Tagg, Open University, UK)
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Anne Graefer is Lecturer in Media Theory at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, UK. She is co-author, with Ranjana Das, of Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany (2017).
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Media and the Politics of Offence.- Chapter 2: Political Offensiveness in the Mediated Public Sphere: The Performative Play of Alignments.- Chapter 3: Creating an Emotional Community: The Negotiation of Anger and Resistance to Donald Trump.- Chapter 4: Unruly Women and Carnivalesque Counter-Control: Offensive Humour in Mediated Social Protest.- Chapter 5: Visual Politics in South Africa: Old and New Modes of Exclusion, Protest and Offence.- Chapter 6: Other Bodies within Us: Shock, Affect and Reality Television Audiences.- Chapter 7: 'Period Sex': Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Feminist Politics of Offence.- Chapter 8: Fans at Work: Offence as Motivation for Critical Vidding.- Chapter 9: Blocked Access: When Pornographers take Offence.- Chapter 10: Regulatory Expectations of Offended Audiences: The Citizen Interest in Audience Discourse.- Chapter 11: Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates.- Chapter 12: Gruesome Images in the Contemporary Israeli Mediated Public Sphere.
