Media Studies

Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each confession ...

The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout th...

Sexual/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland. It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form ...

Positing online users as ''sleepwalkers'', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms pro...

Positing online users as ''sleepwalkers'', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms pro...

Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from high-brow drama all the way down to cartoons - and of course the news as well. From the s...

If his cypher was discovered too soon, his life would be the forfeit. If never, his labour would be in vain.In this volume, we invite you to reflec...

An inside look at how midcentury DC journalists silenced their own skepticism and shaped public perceptions of the Cold War. Americans current trus...

Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential a...

Web of Lies is a fascinating and far-reaching examination of the rising threat of far-right extremist thought in Ireland and internationally, and l...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportuni...

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary exc...

We Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Docume...

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a...

How organizations-including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook-learn from experiments in a data-driven world. Have you logged into Facebook r...

In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as...