Media Studies

This book examines German feature films and television series centered around the figure of the computer hacker as a hero, introducing the German h...

Defying the current pessimistic narrative, this book challenges the prevailing assumptions that the political Left is spent, hopeful ideological di...

New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young People in Eurasia confronts the sociologic...

All is not well in the beautiful county of Midsomer. On the eve of its first Villages In Bloom competition, a man lies dead, smelling of damson jam...

Selected writings by early LA cultural critic Gabriel Navarro, in English for the first timeIn the 1920s and 1930s a uniquely Mexican American ente...

What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, c...

Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of Chinas Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerc...

It has been over 10 years since the tragic and preventable death of Trayvon Martin. In the 10 years since his death, there have been at least 20 hi...

The digitalization of society is constructed as a necessary leap that governments and citizens need to take. However, with many older people lackin...

Während sich die literaturwissenschaftliche Editionswissenschaft nach wie vor am Modell der in den letzten 200 Jahren entwickelten Historisch-krit...

In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; n...

Kunst und Kultur des 21. Jahrhunderts sind dominiert von multimedialen wie multisensorischen Sinneserfahrungen und Wahrnehmungsprozessen. Allerding...

Computational media govern our experiences by externalizing our knowledge and memories, mining data from our behaviour to influence our decision-ma...

The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure, the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink of s...

This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We cant make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without r...

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear...

Circuits of Visibility explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that under...

With images of Jennifer Lopezs butt and America Ferreras smile saturating national and global culture, Latina bodies have become an ubiquitous pres...

Scene affiliations can be understood as socially produced and meaningful commonalities of action in style-specific practices. They are displayed, s...

a very accessible book aimed both at museum studies students and at museum professionals wishing to understand and engage with the use of the web a...

According to some social critics, the digital age involves a retreat into the isolation of intelligent machines. Acclaimed scholar Stefana Broadben...

The perfect book to help anyone 50+ get the most out of the Internet--safely and securely! My Internet for Seniors helps you quickly and easily g...