Media Studies

The attacks of 9/11 created a philosophical and cultural shockwave felt around the world. For many Canadians, 9/11 also produced feelings of insecu...

Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious ...

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment i...

Podcasting in a Platform Age explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the m...

Election campaigning never stops. That is the new reality of politics and government in Canada, where everyone from staffers in the Prime Ministers...

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...

Scroungers, spongers, parasites These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vul...

Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a g...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...

From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book exp...

In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary o...

Opening the Government of Canada presents a compelling case for the importance of a more open model of governance in the digital age but a model t...

Hollywood Diplomacy contends that, rather than simply reflect the Wests cultural fantasies of an imagined Orient, images of Chinese, Japanese, and ...

The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has be...

New Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's ...

The Euro Crisis produced the most significant challenge to European integration in 60 years--testing the structures and powers of the European Unio...

In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and un...

How technology transformed the nature of sex work The internet has revolutionized sex work perhaps more than any other profession. Todays sex worke...

Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional med...

From Murdoch's media empire to Trump's 'fake news', John Lloyd explodes the myths and misinformation of the Post-Truth age, providing a panoramic o...

Is it ever acceptable to borrow culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These ...

Is it ever acceptable to borrow culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These ...