Media, Information & Communication Industries

Chin up, now. Got to have thick skin down here.In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording st...

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the ...

After a half-century of glacial creep, television technology has begun to change at the same dizzying pace as computer software. What this will mea...

Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells ...

Thanks to inexpensive computers and data communications, the speed and volume of human communication are exponentially greater than they were even ...

The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for H...

Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". Already a ...

This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover ...

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social histor...

André Bernard has researched the stories behind more than one hundred of the most famous titles in the English language to produce a fascinating vo...

Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.Their Mecca is Silicon Va...

How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailb...

In 1984, additive manufacturing represented a new methodology for manipulating matter, consisting of harnessing materials and/or energy to create t...

A masterclass in media studies from the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. Described in Parliament as 'excellent' by Ed Vaizey, The P...

How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailb...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous i...

The BBC is the world's most famous and powerful cultural institution. Throughout its 75 year existence it has attracted criticism, controversy and ...

Googled is candid, authoritative and based on extensive research, including in-house at Google HQ where Ken Auletta had unprecedented access. He co...

Nicky Haslam has always been at the centre of things wherever he is - at parties, opening nights, royal weddings - and has stories to tell of cross...

Piers has got a new job. He's off to America to be the 'Nasty Brit' judging the show America's Got Talent - surely a role he was made for? And with...

This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, wi...

'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying. Let me add another to ...