Toby Miller Ordre des livres

Engaging with journalism through the lens of cultural studies, this book explores essential claims about the profession while tackling its most pressing contemporary issues, including critiques of journalistic practices, the quest for objectivity, and the insecurity faced by journalists today.

This book spans an array of contemporary topics and issues not normally tackled by a single writer – the media, genetic engineering, fast food, environmental pollution, climate change, economic inequality, political manipulations, sports, and religion.

"We stand at an epic moment in history, akin to the transformations brought about by plague, slavery, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, war, decolonization, revolution, emancipation, human and civil rights, feminism, and climate change. The current pandemic brings into sharp relief the fault lines of inequality that divide the world both between and within sovereign states, compelling near universal fear and suffering. COVID-19 is a limit case, an emergency of cosmic proportions that can alert us to the limitations and failings of the current world, specifically in the elemental field of health. How should we reconstruct our societies, environments, cultures, and economies in the anticipated wake of COVID-19 - a world 'after' it? To find an answer, we need to examine the dominant discourse of public policy, healthcare in particular. We need a COVID Charter. This book, written by eminent scholar Toby Miller, focuses on the case studies of the US, Britain, Mexico, and Colombia, on the corporate, scientific, and governmental decision making and the disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in each place, to understand how each country is grappling with the pandemic, but in the background the book also pays heed to what has happened in Asia, Africa, and other parts of Europe, as well as the balance of geopolitical power. Miller intends to call for an end to neoliberalism, specifically market-based health care and a reallocation of resources away from pharmaceutical corporations and insurance companies and toward health as a universal public good. The crisis presented by Covid-19 is taken as a further indictment of neoliberalism as a politically and socially bankrupt form of reasoning. The chapters build up to the COVID Charter and how it can be argued for and implemented. The charter draws on the histories of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the UN Charter, the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights, the ASEAN Charter, and the American Convention on Human Rights and the Earth Charter to emphasize the expansion and deepening of human rights as part of broader action against neoliberalism"-- Provided by publisher

Is democracy a force for good or something much more dangerous?

Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it.

Greenwashing Sport examines sport's complicity with our environmental crisis, arguing that first, sport creates its own carbon footprint and second, it provides the gas and petroleum industries with social licenses to operate by accepting sponsorship that imbues corporations from these sectors with a pro-social image. Using Formula 1, FIFA Men's World Cup, and the Olympics as case studies, Miller argues that oil companies make cynical use of sport as a means of 'greenwashing' their public image, while also considering the work of activists who resist such complicity, such as progressive football fans and non-government organizations.

Greenwashing Culture examines culture's complicity with our environmental crisis, arguing that first, culture creates its own carbon footprint and second, it provides the gas and petroleum industries with social licenses to operate by accepting sponsorship that imbues corporations from these sectors with a pro-social image. Using BP, Chevron and Shell as case studies, Miller argues that oil companies make cynical use of culture as a means of 'greenwashing' their public image, while also considering the work of activists who resist such complicity, such as dissident artists and non-governmental organizations.

Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive how-to guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world.

Suffering from «manopause» and «Low T», underemployed and unwilling to grow up, «the other guy» has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change with the times, but is often unable (or unwilling) to understand the new landscape. Avoiding rhetorics of victimization, Derek A. Burrill charts and analyzes the other guy in order to understand how men see themselves, in media and in culture at large.

Toby Miller, a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside, explores the intersections of media, culture, and society through his works. He examines themes such as cosmopolitanism, consumerism, and the impact of television in a neoliberal context. In addition to his scholarly contributions, he engages a wider audience through his cultural studies podcast, enhancing the discourse on contemporary cultural issues.