Index

Page references to figures or tables are in italics; references to notes have the letter “n” following the page number.

abbreviated field experience, ethnography, 25, 105122

fieldwork in media studies, 108111

Monsanto visit, 113119

observation and the field, 111113

participant observation, 108, 110111

“the field,” 110

see also ethnography/ethnographic research; fieldwork

Abreu, S. de, 323

Abu-Lughod, L., 21, 22, 58, 59, 62, 265, 301, 336

accounts of the media, 172

Acosta-Alzuru, C., 22, 25, 26, 125147, 172

action-oriented research, 47

activist audiences, 383, 489509

activist and alternative audiences, 491492

activists as information transmitters, 492493

current approaches to, 495497

future directions, 503504

gulf between activist producers and audiences, 494495

as participants in ritual, 497499

social limitations of new activist media, 501502

activist documentaries, 541545

activist ethnography, 47

Acuña, A., 133

Adkins, L., 166

Adorno, T. W., 549

advertising, 335, 409, 415, 416, 421n

affect, issues of, 203

affective intelligence, 498499

affective pedagogy, 206, 207209

African National Congress (ANC) governments, 259260

agency

audience, 446

civic, 524, 527, 530n

mass media, 457

and reflexivity, 150

self of, 204

Agent Orange, 114, 115, 116

Agost, R., 281

Agrawal, B. C., 313, 315

Aguayo, A. J., 542

Airhihenbuwa, C. O., 474

Akindes, F. Y., 221

Aksoy, A., 295n

Alam Ara (film), 306

Alasuutari, P., 20, 287, 310

Albury, K., 375

Alcoff, L., 46, 427, 432

Aldoory, ...

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