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Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)

In this episode, our host Sim Gill discusses the book Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste (2021) by Jonathan Gray.

You’ll hear about:

A brief history of the book and its connection to global studies of media and communication;

The role of media and cultural studies in amplifying the voices of dislikers, and how can scholars in these fields better understand and appreciate the register of dislike;

The method of refractive audience analysis as a way to understand how adaptations of media texts affect people's perceptions of the original texts;

How paratexts can shape…

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