Media Studies

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, question...

Entering the academy at the dawn of the womens rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a ...

The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries ris...

A meditation on what was lost-and on what is worth preserving-in the movement away from analog music and culture. Although digital media have cr...

The recent economic crisis, and the challenges to democracy in an increasingly globalised world, brings into sharp relief the importance of mass co...

In Free for All, longtime scholar of digital media Elliot King begins with a brief history of the technological development of news media from 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...

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

Africa is changing and digitisation is playing a pivotal role in it. Throughout the whole continent, digital practices are emerging which radical...

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social...

Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial t...

The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media explores the diversity of world media, from the corporate to the independent. It introduces readers to the po...

Emma Gannon was born in 1989, the year the World Wide Web was conceived, so shes literally grown up alongside the Internet. Thereve been late night...

Fight for Democracy is a penetrating and critical scrutiny of the ANCs treatment of the print media since the inception of democracy in 1994. In th...

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives - historical, bibliogr...

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. Sunstein''s book is illuminating because it puts ...

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the European refugee crisis , and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork c...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a black first looks back with searing ...

The first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow, hired by him to cover the Korean War for CBS. He went on to...

Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ide...

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation...

This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explai...

Social media has made charts, infographics and diagrams ubiquitousand easier to share than ever. While such visualisations can better inform us, th...

Taking readers from media students to media professionals, Introducing Media Practice brings together the why and the how to of media studies. It e...

In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism....

Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typ...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, ...

A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for television Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing view...

This research-based monograph presents an introduction to the concept of film-induced tourism, building on the work of the seminal first edition. M...

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to m...