Media Studies

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same ne...

We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls ...

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, ...

Popular newspapers like the British The Sun and the German Bild regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsibilit...

Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices From email to smar...

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a cineph...

Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories, methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over...

Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroug...

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtr...

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

'What channel is Netflix on?'Modern technology can be daunting, especially if you're a silver surfer. How are you supposed to remember your wifi pa...

Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices From email to smar...

Journalists are commonly denounced from all sides a shameful, deceitful trade, a profession sold out to the powerful which gives a biased and misl...

One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the...

When Nikita Khrushchev visited Hollywood in 1959 only to be scandalized by a group of scantily clad actresses, his message was blunt: Soviet cultur...

Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news. The aut...

The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramaticall...

The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramaticall...

Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication, Third Edition explores intercultural communication and the relationship between communication and c...

Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have ...

According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the new entrepreneur was a lone wolf able...

The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to ...

The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to ...

Musicians and music fans are at the forefront of cyberliberties activism, a movement that has tried to correct the imbalances that imperil the comm...

Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in star studies, Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume...

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She w...

Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digita...

The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin...

Radio Active is William OShaughnessys fifth collection of essays, on-air interviews, tributes and eulogies, endorsements, recollections of an eveni...

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reac...

Social media, once heralded as revolutionary and democratic, have instead proved exclusionary and elitist Social media technologies such as YouTube...

Illustrated with examples from contemporary culture, from Grand Theft Auto and Robin Thicke to US Presidential campaigns and online abuse of female...

Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royalty. But who are they and how do you become one?...