Media Studies

From shifts in format, through the effects on circulation and ownership, to the rise of digitally-produced genres, the ways we create, share and li...

Our new media landscape of social networking, blogging, and interactivity has forever changed how media content is produced and distributed. Choice...

From Donald Trumps use of Twitter, to social media mourning, to cyber-bullying: the evidence of media influence today is all around us. As such, go...

What does it mean when images of refugees plight are shared on social media? Or when we respond to emotive NGO fundraising campaigns, or are hearte...

What does it mean when images of refugees plight are shared on social media? Or when we respond to emotive NGO fundraising campaigns, or are hearte...

What does it mean when images of refugees plight are shared on social media? Or when we respond to emotive NGO fundraising campaigns, or are hearte...

Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies in the 20th century.  Paddy Scannell explores how t...

Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies in the 20th century.  Paddy Scannell explores how t...

This edited collection aims to examine religion across: historical media forms using a broad concept of «media» contemporary media with a focus o...

Although Erving Goffman never claimed to be a media or communication scholar, his work is definitely relevant to, and has already served as a subst...

Incisive analyses of mass media - including such forms as talk shows, MTV, the Internet, soap operas, television sitcoms, dramatic series, pornogra...

What is celebrity? How do celebrities influence society? Why do we hang on their every word, tweet or status update? Celebrity Cultures offers a f...

What is celebrity? How do celebrities influence society? Why do we hang on their every word, tweet or status update? Celebrity Cultures offers a f...

When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video...

A favourite with both students and lecturers, How to Do Media and Cultural Studies provides readers with all the knowledge and practical expertise ...

A favourite with both students and lecturers, How to Do Media and Cultural Studies provides readers with all the knowledge and practical expertise ...

An exemplary study of how media regulation works (and, by implication, how it could work better) set within a wider discussion of democratic theory...

A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research... enormously useful for student...

A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research... enormously useful for student...

Investigative journalists and foreign correspondents are among the writers for our special report Danger in Truth; Truth in Danger in the latest In...

Hybrid Politics examines the combinations and competitions between older and newer media technologies, practices, actors, contents and logics, by e...

Everyone knows music is big business, but do you really understand how ideas and inspiration become songs, products, downloads, concerts and career...

This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses across cinema, television, print ...