Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory : How Digital Media Change the Landscape.

Cover -- Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory -- Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory: How Digital Media Changethe Landscape -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Overview of Theories -- Introduction -- Textual Analysis and Image Restoration Theory -- What Makes this Text Unique -- Overview of Chapters -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Importance of Book -- Chapter 1 -- Image Repair Theory -- Note -- Chapter 2 -- Critical Race Theory and Image Repair Studies -- Image Repair and Race-Related Case Studies -- Chapter 3 -- Image Repair Theory and the Web -- Social Media and People of Color -- Image Repair Theory and Social Media Studies -- Part II: Outbursts and Offensive Language -- Chapter 4 -- Hate Speech and Crisis Management -- Image Repair and Offensive Language -- Texts Examined -- Donald Sterling's Image Repair Tactics -- Media and Audience Response -- Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter 5 -- Free Speech versus Hate Speech -- Texts Analyzed -- Background -- Justin Bieber's Image Repair Tactics -- Chapter 6 -- What Happens on Twitter stays on Twitter -- Theoretical Framework: Medium Theory -- Black Twitter and the "Clapback" Culture -- IRT and Hate Speech -- Texts Analyzed -- Media Coverage of #NiggerNavy -- Yahoo Finance's Response -- Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter 7 -- Fighting Words -- Benoit's Typology of Image Repair -- Texts Analyzed -- Hogan's Use of Image Repair Tactics -- Media and Audience Response -- Conclusions and Implications -- Notes -- Part III: Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and IRT -- Chapter 8 -- The Fall of America's Favorite Dad -- Image Repair and Infidelity -- Representations of Black Men -- The Present Analysis -- Image Repair Tactics -- The "Race Card" Narrative -- Celebrity Support -- Celebrity Criticism -- Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter 9.

The Aftermath of #MeToo -- The Feminist Lens -- Medium Theory -- Texts Analyzed -- #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein Background -- Media and Audience Response to Weinstein -- Conclusions -- Part IV: Gender, Race, and IRT -- Chapter 10 -- Passing for Black -- Constructions of Race -- Texts Analyzed -- Dolezal's Use of Image Restoration -- NAACP Stance -- Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter 11 -- Spanning the Decades -- Image Restoration Theory -- Texts Analyzed -- Monica Lewinsky TED Talks Themes -- Lewinsky's Image Repair Tactics -- Twitter Responses -- Conclusions and Implications -- Part V: Politics and IRT -- Chapter 12 -- Taming of the Shrew and Rock Star -- Stereotypes, IRT and Representations of Gender and Race -- Feminist Theory and Media Stereotypes -- Politics and Image Repair -- Platforms and Image Restoration -- Texts Analyzed -- Explorations of Themes -- Senator Clinton's Image Repair Tactics -- Media Response -- Media Response -- Implications and Solutions -- Chapter 13 -- Image Repair and Online Media Framing of Hillary Clinton During the 2016 Presidential Race -- Previous Political IRT Studies -- Texts Analyzed -- Background -- Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter 14 -- Conclusions and Future Directions in Image Repair Theory -- IRT and Social Media -- Visual Images and IRT -- Case Study Limitations -- Note -- References -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

Race, Gender and Image Restoration Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape explores themes that are relevant to the socio-political landscape of twenty-first-century America, including race and gender representation, social media and traditional media framing, and image restoration management.

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