Mainstream(s) and Margins

MICHAEL MORGAN is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is coeditor of Cultivation Analysis: New Directions in Media Effects Research (1990) and coauthor of Democracy Tango: Television, Adolescents, and Authoritarian Tensions in Argentina (1995).SUSAN LEGGETT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

• Introduction Mainstream(s) and Margins: An Opening by Michael Morgan and Susan Leggett Political Strategies, Identities, and Movements Notes on Centers and Margins by Poonam Pillai Mainstreams and Leakage: Interrogating the Margins of "Art" and "Porn" by Rebecca Schneider Identity and Representation as Challenges to Social Movement Theory: A Case Study of Queer Nation by Michael Fraser The Ideological Limits of New Social Movements: The Rise and Fall of Clamshell Alliance by Stephen Adair The United Colors of Multiculturalism: Rereading Composition Textbooks in the 90s by Sandra Jamieson The Writings of Women Prisoners: Voices from the Margins by Susan Ross Audiences, Ideology, and Cultural Representation Liberal Television: Property and the Politics of Commercial Broadcasting by Thomas Streeter Critical Ethnographies and the Concept of Resistance by Kevin Caragee Unarmed and Dangerous: The Gibralter Killings meet the Press by Andy Ruddock Television, Gender, and Sports Hegemony: Prime Time's Portrayal of Female Athletes by Gina Daddario Green but Unseen: Marginalizing the Environment on Television by James Shanahan Initial Lessons in Popular Orientalism from National Geographic Magazine by Linda Steet Refugees and Representation: Politics, Critical Discourse and Ethnography along the New Guinea Border by Stuart Kirsch Index