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INTRODUCTION

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Bloustien, G. (2002) 'Fans with a lot at stake: serious play and mimetic excess in Buffy the Vampire Slayer', European Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (4): 427-49.

Labre, M. P and Duke, L. (2004) '"Nothing like a brisk walk and a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night": the construction of the female hero in the Buffy video game' Journal of Communication Inquiry 4 (28):138-156.

CHAPTER ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA

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Livingstone, S. (1998) 'Mediated childhoods: a comparative approach to young people's changing media environment in Europe' European Journal of Communication 13 (4): 435-56.

CHAPTER TWO: MEDIA GLOBALIZATION

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Couldry, N. (2002) 'Playing for celebrity: Big Brother as ritual event' Television and New Media 3 (3):283-93.

Creeber, G (2004) '"Hideously White": British television, glocalization and national identity' Television and New Media 5 (1): 27-39.

Dutta-Bergman, M.J. (2005) 'Access to the Internet in the context of community participation and community satisfaction' New Media and Society 7 (1): 89-109.

van Zoonen, L. (2001) 'Desire and resistance: Big Brother and the recognition of everyday life' Media, Culture and Society 23 (5): 669-77.

CHAPTER THREE: MEDIA OWNERSHIP

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Garnham, N. (1979) 'Contribution to a political economy of mass communication', Media, Culture and Society 1 (2): 123-46.

Turow, J. (1992) 'The organizational underpinnings of contemporary media conglomerates' Communication Research 19 (6): 682-704.

Verstraeten, H. (1996) 'The media and the transformation of the public sphere: a contribution for a critical political economy of the public sphere' European Journal of Communication 11 (3): 347-70.

Hartgittai, E. (2004) 'Internet access and use in context' New Media and Society 6 (1): 137-43.

CHAPTER FOUR: MEDIA PRODUCTION AND MEDIA PROFESSIONALS

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Carroll, W.K and Hackett, R. A. (2006) 'Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory' Media, Culture and Society 28 (1): 83-104.

Davis, A. (2000) 'Public relations, news production and changing patterns of source access in the British national media' Media, Culture and Society 22 (1): 39-59.

Deacon, D., Fenton, N. and Bryman, A. (1999) 'From inception to reception: the natural history of a news item' Media, Culture and Society 21: 5-31.

CHAPTER FIVE: MEDIA IDEOLOGY

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Corner, J. (2001) 'Ideology: a note on conceptual salvage' Media, Culture and Society 23 (4): 525-33.

van der Berg, H. and van der Veer, C. G. (1989) 'Ideologies in the news: on the measurement of ideological characteristics of news reports' Gazette 14:159-94.

Nohrstedt, S.A. (1986) 'Ideological news reporting from the Third World: a case study of international newspaper and magazine coverage of the civil war in Nigeria, 1967-70' European Journal of Communication 1: 421-46.

Sorenson, J. (1991) 'Mass media discourse on famine in the Horn of Africa' Discourse and Society 2 (2): 223-42.

CHAPTER SIX: MEDIA ANALYZING MEDIA CONTENT: MEDIA 'RE-PRESENTATIONS' IN A DIVIDED WORLD

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Fenton, N. (2000) 'The problematics of postmodernism for feminist media studies' Media, Culture and Society 22 (6): 723-42.

Hayward, K. and Yar, M. (2006) 'The "chav" phenomenon: consumption, media and the construction of the new underclass' Crime, Media, Culture 2 (1): 9-28.

Kitzinger, J. (2000) 'Media templates: patterns of association and the (re)construction of meaning over time' Media, Culture and Society 22 (1): 61-84.

Skeggs, B. (2005) 'The making of class and gender through visualizing moral subject formation' Sociology 39 (5): 965-82.

d'Haenens, L. and de Lange, M. (2001) 'Framing of asylum seekers in Dutch regional newspapers' Media, Culture and Society 23 (6): 847-60.

Coole, C. (2002) 'A warm welcome? Scottish and UK media reporting of an asylum-seeker' Media, Culture and Society 24 (6): 839-52.

van Gorp (2005) 'Where is the frame? Victims and intruders in the Belgian press coverage of the asylum issue' European Journal of Communication 20 (4): 484-507.

Lynn, N. and Lea, S. (2003) 'A phantom menace and the new Apartheid: the social construction of asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom' Discourse and Society 14 (4): 425-52.

CHAPTER SEVEN: AUDIENCES AND RECEPTION

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Bennett, A. (2006) 'Punk's not dead: the continuing significance of punk rock for an older generation of fans' Sociology 40 (2): 219-35.