Media Studies

This book examines the main issues and concepts relating to heritage, screen and literary tourism (HSLT) and provides a comprehensive understanding...

What is the role of the war reporter today? Through interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the ou...

Is Google making us stupid? When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety ...

Tracing the evolution of political advertising from 1952 through 2016, Darrell M. West returns with his much anticipated Seventh Edition of Air War...

An argument that the material arrangements of information-how it is represented and interpreted-matter significantly for our experience of informat...

This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, wo...

A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Con...

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it w...

As citizens of capitalist, free-market societies, we tend to celebrate choice and competition. However, in the 21st century, as we have gained more...

Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in Australia Provides vibrant textual studies of under-evalua...

New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitb...

An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations o...

The mid-20th century brought about an advertising renaissance in the western world. Technology boomed. Standards of living increased, innovation ab...

The 'golden age' of advertising is usually seen to be the last decades of the 20th century, centred on Fitzrovia, vast in quantity, swamping the pl...

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of C...

'A work of engaging pop philosophy and accessible social science [and] a boisterous dissection of the forces jellifying our minds' Sunday TimesIncl...

This new study provides an introduction to TV aesthetics and viewership from the 1940s to the present day, at a time when television as a medium is...

This new study provides an introduction to TV aesthetics and viewership from the 1940s to the present day, at a time when television as a medium is...