Media and Power in International Contexts

Apryl A. Williams earned her PhD from the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. She is an Assistant Professor at Susquehanna University, as well as a Research Associate at the Center on Conflict and Development, a member of the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network.Ruth Tsuria (@realDrRuth) is an Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University College of Communication and the Arts, has earned her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University Department of Communication. She is currently working on her first book Holy Women, Pious Sex, Sanctified Internet: Exploring Jewish Online Discourse on Gender and Sexuality.Laura Robinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University. She earned her PhD from UCLA, where she held a Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Studies and received a Bourse d’Accueil at the École Normale Supérieure.

• Introduction. Media as Power Formations in Digital Cultures; Apryl Williams, Ruth Tsuria, Laura Robinson, and Aneka Khilnani SECTION I: MEDIA, POWER, AND AGENCY Chapter 1. Power and Representation: Activist Standing in Broadcast News, 1970-2012; Deana Rohlinger, Rebecca A. Redmond, Haley Gentile, Tara Stamm, and Alexandra Olsen Chapter 2. Learning from a "Teachable Moment": The Henry Louis Gates Arrest as Media Spectacle and Theorizing Colorblind Racism; Jason A. Smith Chapter 3. Economically Challenged but Academically Focused: The Low-Income Chinese Immigrant Families' Acculturation, Parental Involvement, and Parental Mediation; Melissa M. Yang Chapter 4. The Globalization of Facebook: Facebook's Penetration in Developed and Developing Countries; Naziat Choudhury SECTION II: MEDIA, POWER, AND IDENTITY Chapter 5. Hybridizing National Identity: Reflections on the Media Consumption of Middle-Class Catholic Women in Urban India; Marissa Joanna Doshi Chapter 6. Reading a Complex Latina Stereotype: An Analysis of Modern Family's Gloria Pritchett, Intersectionality, and Audiences; Adolfo R. Mora Chapter 7. Manifestations and Contestations of Hegemony in Video Gaming by Immigrant Youth in Norway; Carol Azungi Dralega and Hilde G. Corneliussen

This volume compiles seven essays by media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and communication researchers from India, Norway, and the US, who examine media and power in different forms of cultural production. They discuss discourse and representations of activism in news media as significant forms of power; hegemonic media cultural logics that limit agency for people of color, using the example of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates; how media consumption mediates parent-child relationships in Chinese immigrant families; the adoption of Facebook in developing countries; the relationship between media, identity, religion, and power in the context of middle-class Catholic women in India; audience interpretations of Sofia Vergara's portrayal of Gloria Pritchett in Modern Family in terms of stereotypes; and how identity markers are manifested when Norwegian immigrant youth play video games.