Media Studies

Introduction to Media Literacy builds students media literacy step-by-step to make them more knowledgeable and engaged producers and consumers of m...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

''''Under the latest iteration of the American Dream, if you aren''''t a billionaire yet, you haven''''t tried hard enough.'''' At the height of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be...

Visual Ethics addresses the need for critical thinking and ethical behavior among professionals responsible for visual messages in photography and ...

On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution. With ...

Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and b...

Fandom has been celebrated both as a harmonious, tolerant space and as apolitical and detached from reality. Yet fandom is neither harmonious no...

Media Theory for A Level provides a comprehensive introduction to the 19 academic theories required for A Level Media study. From Roland Barthes to...

A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwa...

Children, Media and Culture seeks to redefine the discipline''''s domain by including classical art, fairy tales, and literature in the research p...

Radios influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the challe...

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally change...

What started in 2002 as a seemingly harmless story about illegal phone hacking blew up into a national storm when it was alleged that missing teena...

Public relations and journalism have had a difficult relationship for over a century, characterised by mutual dependence and - often - mutual distr...

From Occupy to Uncut, from the Arab Spring to the Slutwalk movement, few questions about recent activism raise as much controversy as the role of t...

A Companion to New Media Dynamics presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cul...

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. No longer conte...

During the past one hundred years or so, the depiction of traumatic historical events and experiences has been a recurrent theme in the work of art...

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers n...

From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, womens sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural...

SOAP, SEX AND CIGARETTES examines how American advertising both mirrors society and creates it. From the first newspaper advertisement in colonial ...

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age. ...

Noir is among the most popular, acclaimed, and critically assessed film styles of all time. The unfortunate consequence is an ever-growing divergen...

The news is everywhere. We can''t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really tau...

American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across Americabut they are also contested and reshaped ...

Radio Production is for professionals and students interested in understanding the radio industry in todays ever-changing world. This book features...

The Peoples Journal, A Penny Saturday paper devoted to the interests of the Working Classes, was one of the most successful and culturally influent...

News for All the People is a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial newspaper to the i...

For two years, Clemencia Rodríguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug...

Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids ar...

This book provides an accessible introduction to, and overview of, the digital humanities, one of the fastest growing areas of literary studies. La...

This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema''''s most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, coverin...