Lexington Books
Pages: 246
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9674-8 • Hardback • December 2014 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-0-7391-9675-5 • eBook • December 2014 • $121.50 • (£94.00)
Lisa Glebatis Perks is assistant professor and program director of communication and media at Nazareth College.
Chapter 1: A Walk through the Wardrobe
Chapter 2: Behavioral Patterns
Chapter 3: Emotional Involvement
Chapter 4: Cognitive Involvement
Chapter 5: Equipment for Living Morally
Chapter 6: Technocrat Villain
Chapter 7: Ordinary Hero
Chapter 8: Puppeteer
Chapter 9: Unlikely Alliance
Chapter 10: Love and Friendships
Chapter 11: The Untenable Position
Chapter 12: Moral Ambiguity
Chapter 13: Postmodern Immersion and Interactivity
In an era of binge-watching and streaming media, Lisa Glebatis Perks’s excellent Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality will undoubtedly become a staple read. Through empirical audience data and textual analysis, Perks uncovers the moral lessons inscribed in our most popular texts. Whether you “media marathon” yourself or know someone lost for weeks in their own marathon session, this eminently readable volume will help you understand the people who love to binge and the texts they love to binge on. You may just find yourself, like the marathoners described in this book, unable to stop…
— Paul Booth, DePaul University
Perks’ Media Marathoning represents a much needed analysis of an increasingly popular and significant way we engage with popular media texts today. That we now increasingly use marathoning as a means to connect with our favorite movies, TV shows, books, and games whilst also sharing that experience with friends and family in a social setting represents a dramatic shift in how we understand the media and our relationship with it. Perks uniquely discusses this relationship and presents a thoroughly researched and fascinating book that fills a gap in current scholarship on media audiences, morality, and the evolving practices of media consumption.
— Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth