Media Studies

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface...

There are many current socio-environmental conflicts and problems around the world that affect distinct nationalities, races, or ethnicities. Part ...

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

This book is a comprehensive illustrated account of the technologies and inventions in mass communication that have accelerated the advancement of ...

This book explores the phenomenon of anti-femail genital mutilation (FGM) social media activism. Against a backdrop of over 200 million girls and w...

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. T...

Acknowledging the significance of Edward Saids Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange, and ...

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Vi...

Originally published in 1998, Dynamics of the Pictured Page provides a critical study of the world's first regularly illustrated newspaper, the Ill...

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expres...

Do you want to use R to tell stories? This book was written for youwhether you already know some R or have never coded before.Most R texts focus on...

This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, selfies, with a specific interest in online self-ima...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

This groundbreaking collection advances understanding of the concept of media practices by critically interrogating its relevance for the study of ...

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contempora...

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition...

Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the ...

Making Nonprofit News examines the essence of nonprofit journalism on multiple levels of analysis, explaining how individuals, routines, organizati...

The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for todays digital fi...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in ...

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of ...

This book takes a fresh look at the history of war reporting to understand how new technology, new ways of waging war and new media conditions are ...

The study of new media has developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms and has generated a great deal of excite...

The Classical Hollywood Reader brings together essential readings to provide a history of Hollywood from the 1910s to the mid 1960s. Following on f...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are complex, delineable, yet inter-related social-psychological phenomena. While antisemitism has been described as a...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York Ci...

The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication. Fully revised, this ...

Exploring technology, ethics, and culture to unlock digital scholarships futureFutures of Digital Scholarly Editing navigates the ever-shifting ter...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has in...

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding...

News media, film, and the music industry have become powerful sources of misrepresentation of Black male life in the social imagination of white so...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...

Addressing current trends in feminist historical and literary scholarship in relation to digital media, this book looks at how the field has develo...

This book develops a corpus-assisted approach to the study of self-reflexivity in journalism and examines the ways in which news workers and subseq...

An inside story of local, regional and global advertising in the Middle East. Grounded in empirical research and theories, this book explores the e...

This book assesses the interplay between social media, political polarization, and civic engagement, focusing on countries with differing media env...

This book discusses the growing media engagement between China and Africa from the point of view of both these regions. The rapid increase in Sino-...

Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millio...

Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera is an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of exper...

Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition, Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry.Giles Clark...

In Tracking the Audience: The Ratings Industry From Analog to Digital, author Karen Buzzard examines the key economic, political, and competitive f...

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rit...