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ISBN 10: 1848601662

ISBN 13: 9781848601666

Author: Graeme Turner

The ′demotic turn′ is a term coined by Graeme Turner to describe the increasing visibility of the ′ordinary person′ in the media today. In this dynamic and insightful book he explores the ′whys′ and ′hows′ of the ′everyday′ individual′s willingness to turn themselves into media content through: · Celebrity culture, · Reality TV, · DIY websites, · Talk radio, · User-generated materials online. Initially proposed in order to analyse the pervasiveness of celebrity culture, this book further develops the idea of the demotic turn as a means of examining the common elements in a range of ′hot spots′ in debates within media and cultural studies today. Refuting the proposition that the demotic turn necessarily carries with it a democratising politics, this book examines the political and cultural function of the demotic turn in media production and consumption across the fields of reality TV, print and electronic news and current affairs journalism, citizen and online journalism, talk radio, and user-generated content online. It examines these fields in order to outline a structural shift in what the western media has been doing lately, and to suggest that these media activities represent something much more fundamental than contemporary media fashion.

Ordinary people and the media the demotic turn 1st  Table of contents:

1 Ordinary People: celebrity, tabloid culture and the function of the media

Ordinary celebrities

Producing ordinary identities

The media and their interests

Tabloidization

2 Reality TV and the Construction of Cultural Identities

The cultural function of reality TV

Reality TV and the demotic turn

Constructing cultural identities

Translating cultural identities

Conclusion

3 Redefining Journalism: citizens, blogs and the rise of opinion

The narrative of decline

‘The people formerly known as the audience’

Entertainment and opinion

4 Talk Radio, Populism and the Demotic Voice

The politics of talk radio

Talk radio and the Cronulla riots

Talkback in Australia

American populism: talk radio in the USA

Populism and cultural studies

5 Revenge of the Nerds: digital optimism and user-generated content online

Cyberenthusiasms

Digital optimism

Reality check

YouTube, interactivity and free labour

Conclusion

6 The Entertainment Age: the media and consumption today

The entertainment age

Taking the ‘mass’ out of mass media

Ordinary people and the media

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