Media Studies

The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events broug...

Balancing provocative criticism with clear explanations of complex ideas, this student-friendly introduction investigates the crucial role global e...

Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, Children and Media explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile me...

Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the ...

In a contemporary and ever-changing society, the visual has become a dynamic element that traverse all parts of current life all over the world wh...

Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent it ...

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and leaders use d...

Contemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed ...

Now revised and updated to reflect the impact of emerging technologies, this new edition of Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences...

When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry in...

Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. New technologies, however, only ...

The Handbook of Global Media Research Ingrid Volkmer has collected an admirably rich, thought-provoking, and diverse collection of views to guide c...

The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and t...

Publishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glo...

In this updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed Economics and Financing of Media Companies, leading economist and media specialist Robert G. ...

Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about racefrom cele...

The first collection to address the collective transformation happening in response to the rise of social media With the rise of web 2.0 and social...

This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings ...

Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communi...

How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 political an...

In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the ...