Communication Studies

Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerf...

What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In t...

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often cons...

Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the co...

Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience through Media and Information Literacy examines the way media and information literacy (MIL) can addre...

Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert investigates classical and contemporary understandings of satire, parody, ...

What Movies Teach about Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure, & Entitlement reveals the way that media frames in entertainment content persuade audien...

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. D...

Free Speech on Americas K12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issue...

From the perspectives of positive psychology and positive communication, superheroes are often depicted as possessing virtues and serving as inspir...

Investigates development practice, civil organization formation and the increase of ethnically motivated conflicts over the past two decades in Wes...

Over the last decades of the 20th century, and into the 21st, humor on late-night TV became a more influential part of the United States political ...

Most scientists and researchers aren't prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers - or to deal with backlash. And many researchers have the h...

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and ...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

In the thirty years since CNN launched the first 24-hour television news service, an ever-growing army of dedicated channels has arrived on the sce...

Written as a wake-up call to the field of media studies, The Message is Murder analyses the violence bound up in the everyday functions of digital ...

What does the phrase ubiquitous media actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As ...

Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly inn...

No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and conti...