Sunday, February 3, 2013

Media and Consumer Culture, Fall 2011 (Reading List)



Michael Mario Albrecht
Media and Consumer Culture
Fall 2011, University of New Hampshire

Andrejevic, Mark.  “Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure.”  The Communication Review 10 (2007): 295-317. 

Benjamin, Walter.  “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”  Marxists.org.  Acessed 30 Aug 2011.  http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

Foucault, Michel.  Discipline and Punish:  The Birth of the Prison.  Trans. Alan Sheridan.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1977.

Fuchs, Christian.  “Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surveillance.”  Surveillance and Society 8.3 (2011): 288-309.

Giroux, Henry A.  Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence.”  JAC 21.1 (2001):  1-31.

Gladwell, Malcolm.  “The Coolhunt.”  The Consumer Society Reader.  Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Doublas B. Holt.  New York:  The New Press, 2000.

Haiven, Max.  “Privatized Resistance:  AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberalism.”  The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 29 (2007): 85-110. 

Hausbeck, Kathryn and Barbra G. Brents.  “McDonaldization of the Sex Industries?:  The Business of Sex.”  McDonaldization:  The Reader, 3rd ed.  Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press 2010.

Jurgenson, Nathan.  “The De-McDonaldization of the Internet.”  McDonaldization:  The Reader, 3rd ed.  Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press 2010.

Lasn, Kalle.  Culture Jam:  How to Reverse American's Suicidal Consumer Binge -- And Why We Must.  New York:  Harper Paperbacks, 2000.

Lears, Jackson.  Fables of Abundance:  A Cultural History of Advertising in America.  New York:  Basic Books, 1994.

Lyon, David.  Surveillance Society:  Monitoring Everyday Life.  Philadelphia:  Open University Press, 2001.

Marx, Karl.  “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secrets Thereof.”  Marxists.org.  Accessed 30 Aug 2011.  http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4.

McAllister, Matthew P.  “Consumer Culture and New Media: Commodity Fetishism in the Digital Era.” Media Perspectives for the 21st Century.  Ed. Stylianos Papathanassopoulos.  New York:  Routledge, 2011. 

Meyrowitz, Joshua.  “We Liked to Watch:  Television as Progenitor of the Surveillance Society.”  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 625.1 (32-48).

Monaghan, Lee F.  “McDonaldizing Men’s Bodies?:  Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances.”  Body and Society 13.2 (2007): 67-93.

Ritzer, George.  The McDonaldization of Society 6.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Pine Forge Press, 2011. 

Ritzer, George and Nathan Jurgenson.  “Production, Consumption, Prosumption:  The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital ‘Prosumer.’” Journal of Consumer Culture 10.1 (2010): 13-36.

Sandlin, “‘Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics’:  Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy.”  Curriculum Inquiry 38.3 (2008): 323-350.

Schor, Juliet.  “The New Politics of Consumptions:  Why Americans Want So Much More than They Need.”  Boston Review.  Summer, 1999:  1-26.

Schwartz, Barry.  “The Tyranny of Choice.”  Scientific American.  April 2004:  71-75.

Taylor, Betsy and Dave Tilford.  “Why Consumption Matters.”  The Consumer Society Reader.  Eds. Juliet B. Schor and Doublas B. Holt.  New York:  The New Press, 2000.

Waetjen, Jarrod and Timothy A. Gibson.  “Harry Potter and the Commodity Fetish:  Activating Consumer Readings in the Journey from Text to Commercial Intertext.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.1 (2007):  3-26.

Waldman, Steven.  “The Tyranny of Choice.”  The New Republic.  27 January, 1992:  22-25.

Williamson, Judith.  Decoding Advertisements:  Ideas in Progress.  London:  Marion Boyars Publishers, 1994.

Willis, Susan.  A Primer for Daily Life.  New York:  Routledge, 1991. 

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