Media Studies

Social media, once heralded as revolutionary and democratic, have instead proved exclusionary and elitist Social media technologies such as YouTube...

Illustrated with examples from contemporary culture, from Grand Theft Auto and Robin Thicke to US Presidential campaigns and online abuse of female...

Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royalty. But who are they and how do you become one?...

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post onlineand the large societal impact of these decisions M...

Named a top 50 baseball book of all time by the Huffington PostNamed 2013 Best Book on Journalism and Mass Communication History by the Association...

Angela Davis, Pam Grier, Alice Walker, Michelle Obama. Revolutionary black women have evoked strong reaction throughout American history. Magazines...

An essential contribution to Internet activism and a must read for Indigenous educators, A Digital Bundle frames digital technology as an important...

It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can m...

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' - Mike Davis In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than h...

You are being lied to by people who don't even exist. Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised ...

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has changed the way we live and communicate. The phases of lockdown brought about by the pandemic fundamentally change...

How to Be Online and Also Be Happy is your playful guide to using the internet in a rewarding, productive and meaningful way.While spending time on...

In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless use...

In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach...

This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so throu...

Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and these changes nee...

A Reporters Guide to the EU addresses a pressing need for an effective, in-depth guide to reporting on this major governing body, offering practica...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and del...

Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to ad...

Twenty-first century American television series such as Revolution, Falling Skies, The Last Ship and The Walking Dead have depicted a variety of...