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Podcast: New Books in Performing Arts
Episode: Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
Description: In this episode, our host Sim Gill discusses the book Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste (2021) by Jonathan Gray.You’ll hear about:
A brief history of the book and its connection to global studies of media and communication;
The role of media and cultural studies in amplifying the voices of dislikers, and how can scholars in these fields better understand and appreciate the register of dislike;
The method of refractive audience analysis as a way to understand how adaptations of media texts affect people's perceptions of the original texts;
How paratexts can shape audienc...