The Editors: Rhonda Hammer is Lecturer and Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in women’s studies; education; communications; and film, television, and digital media. Dr. Hammer has co-authored Rethinking Media Literacy and is the author of Anti-Feminism and Family Terrorism: A Critical Feminist Perspective, as well as a number of articles and chapters on feminisms, globalization, media, and critical cultural studies. She has also been actively involved in grassroots and educational video production for many years.Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair at UCLA and is the author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration, titled Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. Kellner’s latest book is Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing.

• Contents: Rhonda Hammer/Douglas Kellner: From Communications and Media Studies Through Cultural Studies: An Introduction and Overview – Douglas Kellner: Toward a Critical Media/Cultural Studies – Lawrence Grossberg: Cultural Studies: What’s in a Name? (One More Time) – Chris Rojek: Stuart Hall on Representation and Ideology – Edward Herman: A Propaganda Model – John Caldwell: How Producers «Theorize»: Shoot-outs, Bake-offs, and Speed-Dating – Henry A. Giroux: Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of Higher Education – Robin Mansell: The Power of New Media Networks – Jeff Share: Young Children and Critical Media Literacy – Ernest Morrell: Teaching Popular Music – Rhonda Hammer: «This Won’t Be on the Final»: Reflections on Teaching Critical Media Literacy – Carmen Luke: As Seen on TV or Was That My Phone?: ‘New’ Media Literacy – Richard Beach: Digital Tools for Collecting, Connecting, Constructing, Responding to, Creating, and Conducting Media Ethnographies of Audience Use of Media Texts – Toby Miller: Children and the Media: Alternative Histories – Joe L. Kincheloe: Capital, Ray Kroc, and McDonald’s: The World’s Lovin’ It – Shirley R. Steinberg: Barbie: The Bitch Still Has Everything – Kathalene A. Razzano/Loubna H. Skalli/Christine M. Quail: The Spectacle of Reform: Vulture Culture, Youth, and Television – Larry Gross: Gideon Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2012: Growing Up Gay Today – Sut Jhally: Advertising, Gender and Sex: What’s Wrong with a Little Objectification? – Elayne Rapping: The Magical World of Daytime Soap Operas – Pepi Leistyna: Social Class and Entertainment Television: What’s So Real about Reality TV? – Myrna A. Hant: African American and Jewish Mothers/Wives on Television: Persistent Stereotypes – Felicia D. Henderson: Successful, Single and «Othered»: The Media and the «Plight» of Single Black Women – Merri Lisa Johnson: Ladies Love Your Box: The Rhetoric of Pleasure and Danger in Feminist Television Studies – Angela McRobbie: Post-Feminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime – Kathleen McHugh: Women in Traffic: L.A. Autobiography – Chon A. Noriega: «Waas Sappening?»: Narrative Structure and Iconography in Born in East L.A. – Carl Boggs/Tom Pollard: American Militarism, Hollywood, and Media Culture – Allan Luke: Another Ethnic Autobiography? Childhood and the Cultural Economy of Looking – Meenakshi Gigi Durham: Ethnic Chic and the Displacement of South Asian Female Sexuality in the U.S. Media – Chyng Sun/Ekra Miezan/Rachael Liberman: Model Minority/Honorable Eunuch: The Dual Image of Asian American Men in the Media and Everyday Perception – Jackson Katz: ‘Politics Is a Contact Sport’: Media, Sports Metaphors and Presidential Masculinity – Leah A. Lievrouw: The Uses of Disenchantment in New Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Remediation and Reconfiguration – Mark Poster: Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden – Rebecca Stephenson: ‘Doing Something That Matters’: Children’s Culture, Video Games, and the Politics of Representation – Alla Zollers: Critical Perspectives on Social Network Sites – Douglas Kellner/Gooyong Kim: YouTube, Politics, and Pedagogy: Some Critical Reflections.