Overview
- Offers an understanding of offensive media content
- Closes a research gap by presenting new research with 90 members of the public in the UK and Germany with whom the authors sat and watched a wide ranging set of television programmes before conducting focus groups and interviews with them
- Highly original focus due to the nature of television content being very different across the UK and Germany; the range, scope and centralisation of media regulation differs hugely across them, and public concerns about provocative screens show intriguing similarities and dissimilarities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Reviews
“A perennial delight of good audience research is the way it shows how issues judged ‘simple and obvious’ by the loudest voices in our culture are in fact complex and variable. This book does that in spades with the current fetish of ‘offence’. Das and Graefer prove the need to move the debate away from simple oppositions of ‘free speech’ versus ‘harmful talk’. And then do it.” (Martin Barker, University of Aberystwyth, Wales)
“The so-called ‘right to offend’ and its corollary, the right to take offence has become one of the most heated, and divisive of debates across modern political, social and cultural life. Ranjana Das and Anne Graefer’s Provocative Screens makes an especially important and timely intervention in this vexed terrain by demonstrating the layers of complexity and ambiguity that lie behind superficially polarised and polarising arguments around the freedom of speech in the 21st century. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary audience research and the cultural politics of offence.” (John Mercer, Birmingham City University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anne Graefer is Lecturer in Media Theory at Birmingham City University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Provocative Screens
Book Subtitle: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany
Authors: Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67907-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67906-8Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88508-7Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67907-5Published: 14 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 136
Topics: Media and Communication, Popular Culture , European Politics