Media Studies

Media and Democratic Transition in Zimbabwe provides an empirical analysis of Zimbabwe’s ongoing state of affairs. Bruce Mutsvairo and Cleophas T. ...

Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas’ transnational ...

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own langua...

'An exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to work for profit -...

The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people wit...

Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text gra...

The Measurement of Media Reputation investigates the efficacy of different measurements of media reputation, the overall evaluation of the media co...

The Political Mel Brooks analyzes both Mel Brooks’s more popular films and his lesser known work to explore how his use of parody and satire, his k...

Whether it’s “Flashback Friday” or “Throwback Thursday,” audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix se...

From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the w...

In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such ...

Recent history suggests the United States is within reach of its first woman president. This book examines the media experiences of women political...

HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premie...

This book argues that the gap between the official transparency rhetoric and the censorship reality has demonstrated the discrepancy between what t...

Audience Responses to Real Media Violence: The Knockout Game considers an emerging and relatively overlooked area of media effects research: user-g...

In modern American presidential campaigning, scholars and citizens have bemoaned the effects of electronic media on voters. Much has been written a...

Social Media: Principles and Applications examines social media in interpersonal, mass-mediated, educational, organizational, and political setting...

Navigating New Media Networks examines the changes introduced into society through the increasing use of communication technology. The development ...

Missing from the ongoing conversation about the titanic forces reshaping national journalism is the meaning of daily professional journalism in com...

The Impact of YouTube on U.S. Politics provides a historical, descriptive, and conceptual analysis of the broad and evolving political impact of Yo...

The Four Pillars of Politics provides a uniform foundation for evaluating political campaign strategies. The four pillars identified in this book—f...

In 2012–2013, one of the largest U.S. newspaper chains, Advance Publications, determined its main product was no longer newspapers but news, and sw...