Media, Margins and Popular Culture

Media, Margins and Popular Culture is a collection from established and emerging scholars in Media and Cultural Studies and the Social Sciences, and focuses on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. The book spans five continents and is divided into sections on gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age. It covers media forms from Flickr to film. Chapters look at the structural and ideological construction of marginality in state and media producer censorship (in Singapore) and media scholarship (Sherlock Holmes and its adaptations). Authors consider; representations of social marginality, e.g. people with dementia; artistic and self-fashioning marginality, from Quentin Crisp to tattoo artists online; and the engagement of marginal users in media spaces (fathers on Mumsnet). This book takes a fresh look at the ideological work of constructing and confronting marginality in media, from Dalits ('untouchables') in Indian cinema to neuro-diverse (autism spectrum) audience interpretations of Doctor Who.

Einar Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK, and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community. His research focuses on online journalism, particularly during crisis and conflicts, and in response to political and environmental change. He has co-edited two volumes of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives with Stuart Allan, Volume 1 (2009), Volume 2 (2014), and has also published journal articles and book chapters on public service media online, crisis reporting, Wikinews, whistleblowing and WikiLeaks.

Heather Savigny is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. She researches and teaches in the broad areas of gender, media and politics. Most recently, with Helen Warner she co-edited The Politics of Being a Woman; Feminism, Media and 21st Century Popular Culture (2015) and with Deirdre O'Neill she published in the AJE journal and the New Statesman on the representation of female MPs in the press. She also writes more widely about heavy metal and feminism.

Daniel Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK, where he is also Head of Knowledge Exchange for the CMC group in the Faculty of Media and Communication. His research broadly explores the intersection of media and democracy, including news coverage of politics, the construction of news, political communication, and political talk in online environments. Daniel is co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group. He is co-editor of The Media, Political Participation and Empowerment (2013) and Re-framing Disability? The Media, (dis)empowerment and Voice in the London Paralympics (2014).

Jenny Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. She previously worked for the Advertising Standards Authority in London, where she was their environment specialist. Her research interests include gender, sexuality and representation, fan cultures, advertising semiotics, anarchism, and environmental communication. She teaches Media and Popular Culture and a specialist final year degree option in Environmental Communication. She enjoys firesides, science fiction and the sea.