Media Studies

This book offers fresh research and insights into the complex relationship between the press, war, and society in the 20th century, by examining th...

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imaginations potential for...

This book focuses on the transformation of Chinese newspaper companies in aspects of managerial strategies, newsroom practices and interactions wit...

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote ...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies ...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in todays rapidly changing medi...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

Generational Use of New Media examines and contrasts how younger and older people, representing different generations, engage with the new media th...

This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States. Due to the changing dynamics of ho...

This book examines contemporary media stories about women who kill their children. By analyzing media texts, motherhood blogs, and journalistic int...

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s abjection, dis...

Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artist...

Authoritative and illuminating, this book demonstrates how we reveal the secrets of our character through the disclosures we make about ourselves i...

Transmediality in Independent Journalism investigates mainstream journalism and its escape routes to independence through transmedia strategies. Wi...

This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal...

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual d...

This brand new edition walks students through the full video production process, from inception of idea to final distribution. Concentrating on the...

Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media ...

This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in c...

This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the twentieth century produced a rise in inequality and violence, the develo...

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on arc...

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the hist...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in...

David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colourful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper report...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical propert...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

This book offers a theoretically informed empirical investigation of national media reporting and political discourse on environmental issues in Au...

This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and Otherness....

Since the late 1990s, there has been a crucial and substantial transformation in Chinas television system involving institutional, structural and r...

Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts....

This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.The wid...

From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production,...

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the digital native who ac...

Bridging art and innovation, this book invites readers into the processes of artists, curators, cultural producers and historians who are working w...

The vast majority of the worlds population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that ca...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and econ...

This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main...

MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. ...

The Storming of the Capitol was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its fi...

The Storming of the Capitol was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its fi...

This popular text describes the processes of doing teacher action research. But it is much more than a dry presentation of methods. Filled with exa...