Publications

Publication details [#36317]

Fitzgerald, Thomas K. 1991. Media and changing metaphors of ethnicity and identity. Media, Culture & Society 13 (2) : 193–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | knowledge | mass media | metaphor

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0163-4437

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This book argues that electronic media influence people not in the first place via their content, but by altering people's situational geography, allowing them to escape from place-defined groups, emphasizing people's social knowledge abouth themselves and others.