Communication Studies

A collective manifesto for the future of cultural studies

Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the w...

Whither the life of online images?

Public service media (PSM) have been the mainstay of Western European broadcasting for a number of decades. Yet despite a general political consens...

The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790...

After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their polici...

Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time po...

In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games...

An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radioSports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market sta...

The development of communication as a discipline has resulted in an explosion of scales tapping various aspects of interpersonal, mass, organizatio...

Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication offers a thorough exploration of sex differences in how men and women communicate, set within the...

Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and cha...

In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemp...

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the...

Communicating and Organizing in Context integrates Giddens’ structuration theory with Goffman’s interaction order and develops a new theoretical ba...

The Social Media Handbook explores how social media are changing disciplinary understandings of the internet and our everyday lives. In addition to...

Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained t...

The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend...

Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication offers a thorough exploration of sex differences in how men and women communicate, set within the...

Health and Medical Public Relations takes a fresh look at media relations and news values. It examines how information about medical research from ...

This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination o...

An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radioSports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market sta...

Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry int...