Description
The urgency and complexity of contemporary social justice issues facing the world today mean that activists, scholars, and storytellers need a readily available compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on media and social justice. The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice gathers over forty leading scholars and presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. Representing leading voices across positionalities and perspectives, geographies and generations, meta-theories and methods, and issues and identities, the Handbook explores intersecting identities, social structures, and power networks within media ownership, representation, selection, uses, effects, networks, and social transformation. These theories, methods, and practices expose media and digital divides, polarization, marginalization, exclusion, alienation, invisibilities, stigma, and trivializations. Yet, they also showcase how individuals and communities also have agency through refusal and resistance. Each of the 32 chapters includes a brief history, key concepts, contemporary debates and dialogues, and future directions, and the volume concludes with reflections on resistances, reckoning, and reparative justice.Connecting critical media scholarship with intersectional feminism, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, Indigenous approaches, queer theory, diaspora studies, and environmental justice frameworks, the Handbook re-envisions the role of media and technology with an inclusive trauma-informed approach to scholarship that is essential for the future of this research.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsContributor BiosSection A: IntroductionChapter 1: Perspectives, Positionalities, and Paradigms in Media & Social Justice Scholarship-Omotayo O. Banjo and Srividya RamasubramanianSection B: Approaches and Analytic FrameworksChapter 2: Political Economy of Communication in the Digital Platform Era -Dal Yong JinChapter 3: The Limits of Diversity and Popular Anti-Racism: The Need for Reparative Justice in the Cultural Industries -Anamik SahaChapter 4: Critical Media Effects: A Framework for Bridging Critical Cultural Communication with Media Effects Research -Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. BanjoChapter 5: Black Audiences and Media Resistance -David Stamps Chapter 6: "How Do You Shift That?": Dialoguing Social Justice, Activism, and Black Joy in Media Studies -jas l. moultrie and Ralina L. JosephChapter 7: Latine Media Studies: From Near Omission to Radical Intersectionality -Angharad N. ValdiviaChapter 8: Queer of Color Approaches to Critical Cultural Media Studies -Keisuke Kimura and Shinsuke EguchiChapter 9: Queer and Transgender Media Studies -Erique Zhang and Thomas J. BillardChapter 10: Digital Religion and the Negotiation of Gender/Sex Norms -Ruth TsuriaChapter 11: Critical Disability Media Studies -Katie Ellis and Jessica KeeleySection C: Methods and Meaning MakingChapter 12: Critical Discourse Analysis -Marissa DoshiChapter 13: Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice -Srividya Ramasubramanian, Shannon Burth, and Minnie MacmillianChapter 14: Justice Informatics, Justice for Us All: Liberation from Techno-Ideology -Jasmina Tacheva and Tanya LougheadChapter 15: Researching Closed Fields: What We Can Learn from Analyzing So-Called Constrained, Inaccessible and Invisible Media Contexts -Hanan BadrChapter 16: Digital Archives and Unexpected Crossings: A Data Feminist Approach to Transnational Feminist Media Studies and Social Media Activism -Ololade M. Faniyi & Radhika GajjalaSection D: Resistance and RevisioningChapter 17: Mediated Socioeconomic Injustice: Representations of Poor and Working Class People in Mainstream Media -Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-MassayChapter 18: Challenging Caste Hierarchies in Tamil Cinema -Swarnavel EswaranChapter 19: Media Representations, Incarceration, and Social Justice -Adam KeyChapter 20: Heroes of the Border: Using Counternarratives to Break Border Stereotypes and Create Superhero Narratives -Anthony R. RamirezChapter 21: Media Creation and Consumption as Activism among African Transnational and Diasporic communities -Omotayo O. Banjo and Tomide OloruntobiChapter 22: Subaltern Digital Cultures: Precarious Migrants on TikTok -Elisha Lim, Satveer Kaur-Gill, and Krittiya KantachoteChapter 23: Media & Mental Health Interventions among Migrants: Addressing the Disparities -Rukhsana Ahmed and Seulgi ParkChapter 24: Health Media Activism: Latin American Organizing in Response to Feminicides -Leandra Hinojosa HernandezChapter 25: Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities: Challenges and Solutions -Kelly Merrill Jr.Chapter 26: Pedagogies of Resistance - Social Movements and the Construction of Communicative Knowledge in Brazil -Paola SartorettoChapter 27: Emboldening Democratic Pedagogies about Media and Justice through Critical Media Literacy and Peer Teaching -Andrea Gambino and Jeff ShareChapter 28: Alternative Cultures of Resistance and Collective Organizing in the Platform Economy -Cheryll Ruth SorianoChapter 29: LGBT Activism, Social Media and the Politics of Queer Visibility in Ghana -Godfried A. Asante, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, and Ama B. Appiah-KubiChapter 30: Indigenous Environmental Media Activism in South Asia -Uttaran DuttaChapter 31: Indigenous Media Organizing -Mohan J. Dutta and Christine ElersSection E: ConclusionChapter 32: The Future of Media & Social Justice: Resistances, Reckoning, and Reparative Justice -Srividya Ramasubramanian and Omotayo O. Banjo Index
