Media Studies

The Anime Boom in the United States is a comprehensive and empirically grounded study of the expansion of anime marketing and sales into the United...

The childhood obesity epidemic is an urgent public health problem. The most recent data available show that nearly 19 percent of boys and about 15 ...

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media e...

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media e...

Das 21. Jahrhundert bringt zahlreiche sozialökologische Herausforderungen mit sich: Neben Globalisierung und digitaler Revolution, die das menschli...

Today drag has an unprecedented mass cultural appeal. Reaching far beyond traditional queer venues and audiences into the mainstream, it has evolve...

India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape ...

Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slan...

Tracing the development of new technological skills and digital cultures, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these ...

This volume investigates the practice and challenges of journalism addressing globalized risk from various world regions.With chapters written by m...

During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the socio-political ...

In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 y...

This book examines users digital content contribution and consumption behavior from a social perspective. Digital content is everywherefrom search ...

In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical cru...

Inextricably linked to neoliberal market economies, public relations influence in our promotional culture is profound. Yet many aspects of the prof...

Where racism and sexism meetan understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways a...

With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace ho...

Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games th...

Imagine losing a loved one in the public eye. A media frenzy ensues and spreads your family name through the news. Reporters ambush you, and acros...

This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical material...

Since the 2016 presidential election, the term fake news has become part of the national discourse. Although some have appropriated the term for po...

Hunter Thompsons writing is widely read and studied, yet as a methodology and body of work his Gonzo journalism has not been the subject of much cr...

Argues for the queer potential of video games While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games th...

The last decade has witnessed a dramatic decline in the presence and influence of legacy news organizations. This decline has led to tremendous gro...

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to p...

When Alice steps through the mirror in Lewis Carolls Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she removes herself from the centre of vision and perspecti...

Bringing together ten chapters by some of the most important scholars of literary journalism around the world, this book covers a range of topics t...

Bringing together ten chapters by some of the most important scholars of literary journalism around the world, this book covers a range of topics t...

New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its broader acade...

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the A...

This bilingual book is the outcome of a research project undertaken between the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at t...