"The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation? Dislike-Minded draws from over 200 interviews to probe what the media's failures and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship"--

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).