Media Studies

This book applies digital methods of analysis to the study of the impact of digital technologies on the social and political spheres of women in Sa...

New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline....

This volume integrates multimodal theoretical frameworks with those from graphic communication and information design and applies this critical syn...

Bringing together new and classic work by Tony Harcup, this book considers the development of alternative journalism from the 1970s up until today....

The national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Waterg...

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentat...

Cultural Production and the Politics of Womens Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among womens workplace roles, mode...

This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors ...

Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a classic b...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground jour...

Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western examines the use and function of musical tropes and gestures traditionally associated with the American Weste...

Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scor...

Examining the news coverage of the economic crisis in Greece, this book develops a framework for identifying discourses of legitimation of actors, ...

While some academic attention has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French...

In this short book, Evans interrogates the implications of VRs re-emergence into the media mainstream, critiquing the notion of a VR revolution by ...

Political marketing coalesced as a subfield in the mid-1990s, and in 2002 the Journal of Political Marketing began publication. This anniversary co...

New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline....

Comments on digital news stories and on social media play an increasingly important role in public discourse as more citizens communicate through o...

The links between distinctive political regimes and media systems are undeniable. As Siebert, Peterson and Schramm wrote (1956: 1) 60 years ago: th...

Contemporary democratic discourses are frequently, though not exclusively, characterized by an attitude of pro and con' where the aim is to persuad...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book...

This book offers insights into the translation and adaptation of illustrated texts in an era in which visual texts are perceived as a dominant perc...