[Commlist] Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste

*Dislike-Minded***

Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste

*Jonathan Gray***

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Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do

The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, 
stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and 
alienation?

/Dislike-Minded/draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to 
probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about 
media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, 
audiences, and citizenship. The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre 
Bourdieu’s famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery. Instead, 
Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it 
ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and 
other media, and why this dislike matters.

As we watch and listen through gritted teeth, /Dislike-Minded/listens to 
what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience 
research within communication, media, and cultural studies.

*Jonathan Gray*is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication 
Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of 
Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including 
/Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media 
Paratexts/(2010), /Fandom/, /Second Edition/(2017), /Keywords for Media 
Studies/(2017), and /Satire TV/(2009), as well as /Television 
Studies/(with Amanda D. Lotz), and /A Companion to Media 
Authorship/(with Derek Johnson).


*New York University Press**| Critical Cultural Communication | June 
2021 | 288pp | 9781479809981 | PB | £21.99**

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