Chapter 10

Mick Underwood's Cultural Studies Site

http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/

This is an excellent website, created and maintained by teacher Mick Underwood and aimed at university students. It is very user-friendly and full of well presented information about what Cultural Studies is and how it relates to music, education and social theory. It is also a 'reflexive' website in which the author makes comments on his use of cyberspace... well worth a visit!

New Media Studies

http://www.newmediastudies.com/index2.htm

This is a fantastic site, and a lot of fun to navigate! It is written by David Gauntlett from the University of Bournemouth, and provides a full and varied account of his idea of 'new media studies'. There is plenty of information about the city, art forms and social diversity, and some of the pages are linked to www.theory.org, another useful site. This is a really valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the media and popular culture. It is an archived site, but its content is still highly relevant.

The Media and Communication Studies Site

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html

This is a vibrant and extensive website about every aspect of mass communications. Here you can find essays by various academics about issues as diverse as children & television, gender representations, film genres, optical illusions and textual analysis. The pages have been compiled by Daniel Chandler from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is a great resource for anyone who is reviewing the literature on a specific area of media studies.

The Impact of Televised Violence

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/reports/violence/tv_violence_child.cfm

This is a review essay about the effects of watching televised violence on the behaviour of children of various ages. It draws upon the findings of various studies, and was written by Wendy L. Josephson as a report for the Canadian government. As well as reading its manifest content, you may find it interesting to think critically about how and why the report has been produced, and any biases that might be inherent in it. How do the findings relate to the idea of a moral panic about televised violence?

Sociology of Cyberspace Links

http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/cyber.html

Robert van Krieken from the University of Sydney has compiled this extremely useful collection of links to resources about the sociology of cyberspace. From this page you can navigate your way through a plethora of online sites about different aspects of Internet culture: journals, articles, courses, tours, centres, groups and multi-user domains. Keep this in your bookmarks for any research into cyberspace!

Gender and popular culture

http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/gender.html

This is a helpful collection of resources on various aspects of the relationship between the mass media, gender and popular culture. It contains a range of interesting articles about media representations of female characters, the gender politics of popular cultural texts (such as Lara Croft) and women in cyberspace. You can also navigate back to the main page to find similar resources on popular culture in relation to ethnicity, social class and sexuality, as well as textual analysis and audience research.

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