Media Studies

Blogging: How Our Private Thoughts Went Public examines self-representational writing from its historical roots in personal diaries to its current ...

Through a critical examination of the Korean diaspora in transnational contexts as a case study, Korean Digital Diaspora: Transnational Social Move...

Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism explores the role of advertising and the consumption it promotes in changing cultural perceptions of sex and f...

Exemplary Representations of African American Women on Television: Queen Sugar On Screen and Behind the Scenes argues that the Oprah Winfrey Networ...

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Th...

Media are a powerful educational force that teaches about the relationship between humans and living systems while also physiologically impacting t...

America is fascinated with celebrities—from chefs to athletes to television, movie, and rock stars, and even to people who are only famous for bein...

Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the...

When Roberto Saviano published Gomorrah in 2006 he exposed the Camorra, an organized crime network with global reach emanating from Naples. This g...

Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preven...

A major common misconception in scholarship on Kurdish journalistic discourses is that Kurdish intellectuals of the late Ottoman period cannot be p...

In the 21st century, an accelerated pace of global movements of people, goods, capital, technology and ideas has led to ambivalence regarding cultu...

The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, w...

Unsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile: Longing for Resistance in Literature and Film reframes nostalgia to analyze how writers and filmmakers hav...

Repairing the Athlete’s Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration, edited by Joseph R. Blaney, Lance Lippert, and J. Scott Smith, offers twenty-on...

Activists use digital as well as mainstream media tools to attract supporters, advertise their campaigns, and raise awareness of issues in the broa...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how i...

Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring abo...

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give...

Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, is a collection which examines ima...

Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two...

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Th...

Citizens everywhere are turning to multiple news sources to inform their daily decisions. In Brazil, an emerging global power and democracy, those ...

When Roberto Saviano published Gomorrah in 2006 he exposed the Camorra, an organized crime network with global reach emanating from Naples. This g...

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of autho...

Africana Race and Communication: A Social Study of Film, Communication, and Social Media focuses on the areas of History, Ethos, Motif, and Mytholo...

Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, provides an introduction to the p...

Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. While official statistics s...

News discourse helps us understand society and how we respond to traumatic events. News Framing of School Shootings: Journalism and American Social...

In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks—families, friends, etc.—in helping i...

This book explores the relationship of the media and politics to America’s largest generational group, the millennial generation. As the group has ...

In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. h...

For centuries scholars have fretted about the gulf that exists between the enormity of historical change and the banality of people's everyday live...

For centuries scholars have fretted about the gulf that exists between the enormity of historical change and the banality of people's everyday live...

Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional ‘notation-centric’ musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and constructi...