Media Studies

In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The book shows how,...

As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun to expand into news reporting. ...

Thinking Critically About Media is a textbook for self-defence against manipulation by politicians, the media and assorted propagandists. Its inter...

Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of c...

Christine L. Nystroms provocative work offers up a fresh approach to ongoingand increasingly urgentquestions about the role of symbols and technolo...

Using the Herman & Chomsky «Propaganda Model» that was introduced in 1988, Goss offers a rigorous and accessible portrait of contemporary news ...

Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on...

Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on th...

Tragers The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication provides a clear and engaging introduction to media law with comprehensive coverage and analys...

A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it...

Who controls how ones identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet age. Jennifer Rothma...

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the Event: the societal c...

The Arkansas Gazette, under the independent local ownership of the Heiskell/Patterson family, was one of the most honoured newspapers of twentieth-...

What does sovereignty sound like? Sonic Sovereignty considers how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion self-determination through musical exp...

What does sovereignty sound like? Sonic Sovereignty considers how contemporary Indigenous musicians champion self-determination through musical exp...

Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women's sports Mixed martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rous...

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware!Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to e...

Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendts provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of depa...

During the first three months of 1972 a trial took place in the middle district of Pennsylvania: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA versus Eqbal Ahmad, P...

Joe Castiglione is one of a few select announcers whose voice harkens fans back to the home field of their favourite team. After 30 years, his comm...

A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore ...

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a w...