Media Studies

Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity is a theoretical- and practice-based response to the crisis of mission and credibility in journalism s...

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and w...

This book covers key aspects of parasocial relationships (PSRs), or the relationships people have with media personalities, including fictional cha...

The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and a...

Womens Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, an...

This book explores historical and modern uses of makeup for self-expression, with a focus on gender.The book begins by exploring the historical inf...

This book explores historical and modern uses of makeup for self-expression, with a focus on gender.The book begins by exploring the historical inf...

Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) is an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cult...

This edited book presents the integration of Critical Media Literacy (CML) principles into teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This appro...

Pornographys impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance has been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book...

This volume sets out a new paradigm in intersemiotic translation research, drawing on the films of Ang Lee to problematize the notion of films as t...

This book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical appro...

Dieser Ratgeber unterstützt Eltern, Pädog*innen und Therapeut*innen dabei, die Faszination von Smartphones für Kinder zu verstehen, die Bedeutung v...

This book presents cutting-edge methods and findings that are expected to contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, ...

Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent...

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in th...

Given the high rate of social media use by the public, organizations are compelled to engage with key audiences through these outlets. Social media...

Beginning with the American Revolution and spanning over two hundred years of American journalism, A Narrative History of the American Press provid...

Music in Action Film is the first volume to address the central role of music and sound in action filmarguably the most dominant form of commercial...

This book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandras Bidyasundar, the...

First published in 1991, this book presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of radio broadcasting. Its eleven chapter-categories cover almos...

First published in 1991, this book presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of radio broadcasting. Its eleven chapter-categories cover almos...

The 21st century has been called the Asian Century by Eastern and Western academics, largely due to the economic and cultural rise of China and Ind...

This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular su...

This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical appro...

The Internets importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share informat...

The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media migrations t...

In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing...

Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years....

Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods. Visual Methods i...

Originally published in 2003, Hans Keller and the BBC is a vivid portrait of the changing face of British broadcasting seen through the work of one...

Awarded QRSIG's Honerable Mention for 20212020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award WinnerArts-Based Educational Research and Qualitative Inquiry introd...

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywo...

Communication defines political representation. At the core of the representational relationship lies the interaction between principal and agent; ...

Interfacing Ourselves consists of new work that examines digital life on three levels: individuals and digital identity; relationships routinely in...

Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national ...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Environmental literacy and education is not simply a top-down process of disseminating correct attitudes, values and beliefs. Rather, it is one tha...

Sentient Relics explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusionexclusion debate. The author resp...

Advertising, Gender and Society explores contemporary social-psychological theory and original research that examines the portrayal of gender in ad...

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and p...

A uniquely interdisciplinary look at storytelling in digital, analogue, and hybridised contexts, this book traces different ways stories are experi...

Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new...

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on television and new forms of advertising in countries...

From tracking down information to symbolising human experiences, this book is your guide to telling more effective, empathetic and evidence-based ...