Media, Information & Communication Industries

What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digital culture? And if mistakes...

With growth in access to high-speed broadband and 4G, and increased ownership of smartphones, tablets and internet-connected television sets, the i...

In this critical primer, Michael Z. Newman introduces newcomers to the key concepts, issues, and vocabulary of media studies. Across ten chapters, ...

With growth in access to high-speed broadband and 4G, and increased ownership of smartphones, tablets and internet-connected television sets, the i...

Exploring computer security as both a social and technical problem

When did mass culture first appear in the United States? How was it conceived, produced and disseminated? Who were the main players in its manufact...

Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional radio stations in the h...

Broadband communications have become the most important focus in the current evolution of the Internet. But there is a significant difference in th...

Screening Protest brings together a range of scholarly perspectives on the study of protest mediations on television and in film. Arguing that the ...

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings to...

As a prime source of news, television can be inseparable from the political processes in each European country, and in Europe as a whole. This text...

During the 1930s many Americans avoided thinking about war erupting in Europe, believing it of little relevance to their own lives. Yet, the Warner...

Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book...

Most computer network books are described based on a top-down or button-up layer-based perspective – allowing readers to learn about concepts and p...

Exploring computer security as both a social and technical problem

The British Media Industries offers an accessible introduction to how the media in Britain operates and the impact that recent political, economic,...

An important phase in the American book trade's shift from colonial craft work to nineteenth-century big business took place in the early national ...

Territories of Profit compares Dell Computer, the dominant computer manufacturer of the late twentieth century, and G. F. Swift, the leading meatpa...

In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode...

Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News teaches students how to write with the conversational simplicity required for radio and TV. This te...

India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay produ...

What has made Silicon Valley so productive of new technologies and new firms? How did its pioneering achievements begin—in computer networking, sem...