Media Studies

From science channels and documentaries to fictional and children's programming, television brings a myriad of scientific discoveries and theories ...

Focusing on a 2001 Canadian news story that turned into a frantic rumor mill, this study analyses how media reporting on health issues often alarms...

This smart and snappy book is the print-interpretation of ''The List'' www.thelistmag.com - a website dedicated to sourcing andsharing weekly nugge...

Eugeni Bonet (Barcelona, 1954) is undoubtedly one of the main theoretical referents in the fields of cinema, video and digital media in Spain. For ...

In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial for Air shoesand changed the face of the advertising industry. Set to the song Revolution ...

The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have w...

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...