Media Studies

A strong relationship between sport fans and teams is an essential component for the success of the sport brand. This book provides an in-depth exa...

Over the last few years, social media has expanded to become a key platform for news dissemination and circulation. Nations, governments, organisat...

Emphasizing the global nature of Indian and Chinese film, television, and digital media, Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media...

Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social mo...

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of Ameri...

Over the last two decades, military and authoritarian regimes in Latin America have receded as indigenous social movements and popular protests hav...

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of Ameri...

Parasocial Romantic Relationships: Falling in Love with Media Figures explores how, why, and to what effect individuals develop romantic feelings t...

This book offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media ...

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

Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilizati...

Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa is a collection of essays on the histories of the different radios of the liberation movements in the region du...

Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration re-imagines the ethical relationship of host societies towards newcomers by applying t...

Throughout history, comedians and clowns have enjoyed a certain freedom to speak frankly often denied to others in hegemonic systems. More recently...

From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations,...

This book presents a road map for developing media education targeted toward Generation Z (people born between the mid-1990s to 2010). It offers in...

[This book] discusses how the Hungarian and Romanian film industries show signs of becoming a regional hub within the Eastern European canon, a pro...

In this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Br...

In the 1990s, China’s economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-eme...

Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of new developments in 201...

As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and identities become ...

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adap...

This book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School” in early twentieth-century ...

This book maps how Brazil and the network of Portuguese-speaking countries—the “Lusosphere”—are using digital technologies in new ways to expand op...

In Performative Memoir: Moving between Worlds, Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes construct a new genre of writing, performative memoir. Drawi...

Technologies of Refuge and Displacement: Rethinking Digital Divides aims to theoretically and practically understand technology access and use from...