Media Studies

We are now confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The dig...

The media is ubiquitous. Every day we watch hours of TV, listen to the radio, read newspapers and magazines, go to the cinema, sit in front of vide...

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what ...

In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of social innovation moments in American history. Through these momentsduring which social...

Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics f...

Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedi...

The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we...

During the National Post''s first year of publication, it claimed that Canada''s supposedly exorbitant taxes were causing great damage to the econo...

The Discourse of Public Participation Media takes a fresh look at what ordinary people are doing on air what they say, and how and where they get ...

This book serves as an accessible critical introduction to the broad category of American political television content. Encompassing political news...

From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the on...

Charges of fake news tend to be politically motivated whether made by Republicans or Democrats. Yet the potential for media bias is real and des...

Exploring British society's response to cinematic espionageThe chapters of this book explore how British society responded to cinematic and film re...

The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images....

A ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rights. A f...

This is a ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rig...