Media Studies

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same ne...

We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls ...

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, ...

Popular newspapers like the British The Sun and the German Bild regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsibilit...

Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices From email to smar...

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a cineph...

Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories, methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over...

Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroug...

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtr...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

'What channel is Netflix on?'Modern technology can be daunting, especially if you're a silver surfer. How are you supposed to remember your wifi pa...

Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices From email to smar...

Journalists are commonly denounced from all sides a shameful, deceitful trade, a profession sold out to the powerful which gives a biased and misl...

One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the...

When Nikita Khrushchev visited Hollywood in 1959 only to be scandalized by a group of scantily clad actresses, his message was blunt: Soviet cultur...

Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news. The aut...

The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramaticall...

The presence of women and African Americans not simply as viewers, but also as televangelists and station owners in their own right has dramaticall...