Media and power in international contexts : perspectives on agency and identity / edited by Apryl A. Williams, Ruth Tsuria, Laura Robinson and Aneka Khilnani.

Includes index.

Prelims -- Media and power in international contexts: perspectives on agency and identity -- Section I Media, power, and agency -- Chapter 1 Power and representation: activist standing in broadcast news, 19702012 -- Chapter 2 Learning from a "teachable moment": the Henry Louis Gates arrest as media spectacle and theorizing colorblind racism -- Chapter 3 Economically challenged but academically focused: the low-income Chinese immigrant families' acculturation, parental involvement, and parental mediation -- Chapter 4 The globalization of Facebook: Facebook's penetration in developed and developing countries -- Section II Media, power, and identity -- Chapter 5 Hybridizing national identity: reflections on the media consumption of middle-class catholic women in urban India -- Chapter 6 Reading a complex Latina stereotype: an analysis of Modern Family's Gloria Pritchett, intersectionality, and audiences -- Chapter 7 Manifestations and contestations of hegemony in video gaming by immigrant youth in Norway -- Index.

This special volume of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity. Scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies come together to examine axioms of power at play across different forms of cultural production. Contributing to these fields, the volume highlights the value of interdisciplinary work and international perspectives to enrich our understandings of agency and identity vis-a-vis key case studies of media consumption and production.International contributions shed new light on the complex ways in which media reinforce and reflect power in different societal and national arenas. The result is a rich interdisciplinary and multi-method exploration of how power is conceptualized and realized through a variety of hegemonic and discursive practices. The authors' analysis of critical case studies makes important progress towards closing theoretical gaps concerning the study of the complex relationships between media and gender, race, ethnicity, and national identity. In so doing, the volume contributes phenomenological and epistemic knowledge of media and power across disciplines and societal contexts.

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