Media Studies

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportuni...

In 2016, Netflix--with an already enormous footprint in the United States--expanded its online streaming video service to 130 new countries, add...

The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text. After a brief history of U.S. news dailies and weeklies it turns a...

Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronounce...

Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea that the home is one of the mos...

The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of Am...

Populism is one of the most frequently used terms in todays political discussions. From Turkey to the United States of America, the effect of popul...

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass en...

A supplement to Salem Press's Careers In series, a career-focused series exploring the fields and occupations of physics, chemistry, and other scie...