Media Studies

'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh 'Insanely readable' Slavoj Ziz...

The rapid expansion of the newspaper business in the first decade of the American republic had crucial consequences for cultural, commercial, and p...

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates...

Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contempor...

Scholars have long recognized the media''s role in shaping and reflecting the way we see the world, ourselves, and others. In particular, they have...

Christine Davis offers readers an insiders view of the practices of ten leading qualitative communication scholars, showing how they make critical ...

Lincoln Mediated provides new information about a historical figure everyone thinks they know. It describes how Abraham Lincoln worked with the pre...

In Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author, Jodie Peeler tells the story of a man consumed with a need to see the world but whose heart...

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? How are these trends represented in movement, in performance, a...

There is no comprehensive study of the Canadian reaction to the famine in the English or Ukrainian language, [...] so this is a major contribution....

Every day billions of people view billions of web pages. A blank rectangle in a web browser transforms into the Guardian, or Google, or, God help u...

From 1932 to 1933, a catastrophic famine, known as the Holodomor (extermination by hunger), raged through Ukraine, killing millions of people. Alth...

The discovery and mining of the Comstock Lode in Nevada forever changed the mining culture of the American West. Using the pen name Dan De Quille, ...

With this provocative and concise book, journalist Peter Laufer launches a Slow News movement, inviting us to question the value of the perpetual e...

Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later provides a synopsis of the beginnings of electronic media in broadcasting and the subsequent advancements in...

Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pervasive in popular culture. In thi...

What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American news...

Advances in digital communication have affected the relationship between society, journalism and politics within different contexts in varied ways ...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to make it in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid wo...