Media Studies

The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the European refugee crisis , and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork c...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a black first looks back with searing ...

The first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow, hired by him to cover the Korean War for CBS. He went on to...

Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ide...

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation...

This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explai...

Social media has made charts, infographics and diagrams ubiquitousand easier to share than ever. While such visualisations can better inform us, th...

Taking readers from media students to media professionals, Introducing Media Practice brings together the why and the how to of media studies. It e...

In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism....

Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typ...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, ...

A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for television Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing view...

This research-based monograph presents an introduction to the concept of film-induced tourism, building on the work of the seminal first edition. M...

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to m...