Media Studies

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representati...

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship betw...

This book scrutinizes the relationship between contemporary TV shows and space, focusing on the ways in which these shows use and narrate specific ...

Offering a critical and sensitive reflection on journalists nonverbal behaviors during their coverage of school shootings in the U.S., this book sh...

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is madea major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of ...

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer onl...

The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental...

The media and the politicians are always screaming at us about horrifying, end-of-the-world threats, and also about miraculous new technologies tha...

This book is the first systematic study on the historiography of the family planning communication process in India. It traces the history of the d...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmedia...

This book is an exploration of media scandals in contemporary Japanese society. In shedding new light on the study of scandal in Japan, the book of...

This volume provides the basis for contemporary privacy and social media research and informs global as well as local initiatives to address issues...

From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasse...

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy. Thi...

James Bond, Ian Flemings irrepressible and ubiquitous spy, is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bonds Cold War diverged from the actual...

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in Sou...

Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who explores fandoms chan...

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format)...

The World White Web provides an interdisciplinary analysis of far-right radicalisation in the digital age, drawing from criminology, history, and c...

Social media communications play a huge role in the day-to-day operations of sport teams and organizations. Both current and aspiring sport busines...

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the...

Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media and fictio...

The decisive role of Britains wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the...

In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas ab...

This Handbook is the first of its kind addressing gender issues in health in five countries of the South Asian Region, namely: Bangladesh, India, P...

This book presents a collection of research papers that explore how managers, practitioners and policymakers can address the challenges of the Digi...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IA...

This book provides a much-needed critical exploration of digital media interventions in Southeast Asia, while adopting a decolonial perspective to ...

Wie wurde in führenden deutschen Massenmedien zur Zeit der Corona-Pandemie über die Schule geschrieben? Welche Themen standen dort im Mittelpunkt, ...

Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size a decade that forever altered what h...

This book presents the impact of digital transformation and other megatrends on the steel industry, focusing on the digitization of processes, and ...

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of...

Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where the digital wont let [...

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on th...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, per...

Patricia M. Greenfield was one of the first psychologists to present new research on how various media can be used to promote social growth and thi...

Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments ma...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

Over the first two decades of the 21st century, celebrity has undergone significant changes as mass media have shifted from a restricted broadcast ...

Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipu...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

Celebrities attract the attention of commercial interests and other public figures. They receive payments from sponsors to endorse brands. They are...

The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the W...

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It provid...

How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that ...

A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondons fundam...