Critical Animal and Media Studies

<p>This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical philosophical discursive social constructionist and political economic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: foundations representation and responsibility outlining the different disciplinary approaches’ application to media studies and covering how non-human animals and the relationship between humans and non-humans are represented by the mass media concluding with suggestions for how the media as a major producer of cultural norms and values related to non-human animals and how we treat them might improve such representations.</p>