Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media/Culture. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception, in dialectic of enlightenment" -- Tania Modleski, "Mass-produced fantasies for women" -- George Lipsitz, "Popular culture: this ain't no sideshow" -- Baretta Smith-Shomade, "Eyes wide shut: capitalism, class and the promise of black media" -- Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy" -- Lev Manovich, "The practice of everyday (media) life: from mass consumption to mass cultural production" -- Media/Technology. Susan Douglas, "The turn within: the irony of technology in a globalized world" -- Walter Benjamin, "the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" -- Lisa Gitelman, "Reading music, reading records, reading race" -- Lynn Spigel, "The domestic economy of television viewing in postwar America" -- Anna McCarthy, "From screen to site" -- Leopoldina Fortunati, "The mobile phone: towards new categories and social relations" -- Media/Representation. Stuart Hall, "The work of representation" -- John Berger, "Ways of seeing" -- Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, "Stereotype, realism, and the struggle over representation" -- Anne Mclintock, "Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising" -- Andrew Wernick, "The promotional condition of contemporary culture" -- Nick Couldry, "Liveness, reality, and the mediated habitus from television to the mobile phone" -- Media/Industry. Herbert Schiller, "The corporation and the production of culture" -- Michael Curtin, "On edge: culture industries in the neo-network era" -- Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart, "When creators, corporations and consumers collide: Napster and the development of online music distribution" -- Marwan Kraidy, "The cultural and political economies of hybrid media texts" -- Toby Miller and Marie Claire Leger, "Runaway production, runaway consumption, runaway citizenship: the new international division of cultural labor" -- Tizania Terranova, "Free labor: producing culture for the digital economy" -- Media/Identity. Stuart Hall, "Who needs identity?" -- David Morley and Kevin Robbins, "Under western eyes: media, empire and otherness" -- Sarah Banet-Weiser, "What's your flava: race and postfeminism in media culture" -- Judith Halberstam, "Oh behave! Austin Powers and the drag kings" -- Laura Grindstaff, "Class, trash and cultural hierarchy" -- P. David Marshall, "The promotion and presentation of the self: celebrity as marker of presentational media" -- media/audience. Ien Ang, "On the politics of empirical audience research" -- Lawrence Grossberg, "The affective sensibility of fandom" -- Bell Hooks, "The oppositional gaze" -- Jack Bratich, "Amassing the multitude: revisiting early audience studies" -- Mark Andrejevic, "The work of being watched: interactive media and the exploitation of self-disclosure" -- Mizuko Ito, "Japanese media mixes and amateur cultural exchange" -- Media/Citizenship. Peter Dahlgren, "Mediating democracy" -- Stuart Cunningham, "Popular media as public 'sphericules' for diasporic communities" -- Jeffrey Jones, "A cultural approach to the study of mediated citizenship" -- Lauren Berlant, "The theory of infantile citizenship" -- Laurie Ouellette and James Hay, "Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen" -- Hector Amaya, "Citizenship, diversity, law and Ugly Betty".