Interdisciplinary Studies

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the newly-emerging science of mobile phone behavior. It presents the unexpected complexi...

The first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophi...

Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing...

What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McS...

What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McS...

Written by a leading sociologist of Scotland, this ground-breaking new introduction is a comprehensive account of the social, political, economic a...

Communication research is evolving and changing in a world of online journals, open-access, and new ways of obtaining data and conducting experimen...

When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security fence India is b...

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and ...

Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands mor...

Religious terrorism poses a significant challenge for many countries around the world. Extremists who justify violence in God's name can be found i...

How does an Army recruit attain an identity with soldierhood? What do they give up and what do they gain? What happens when a young officer, indoct...

Since the 1970s, the number of formally democratic states has grown exponentially whilst coherent alternatives to democracy have steadily diminishe...