1. Politics, Gender-Identity and Media Representation
These "culture-mongers", as Mazzarella calls them, reject the mediated aspect of culture because mediation implies distance, intervention, and displacement which in turn challenge the authenticity of the cultural product and the ideological guarantee that they serve the interests of the consumer-citizen and not the corporate-party. ... While there may be some merit to such arguments, we problematize their simplistic nature and try to locate the underlying ideological and political processes that are at work. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate