Media Studies

This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodol...

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

Xie and Chao present a collection of research on mobile communication in Asian communities and countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, a...

As an installment of Routledges Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Electronic Media Research Series, Political Communication, Culture, and Socie...

Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl mediate the te...

This book is a theoretical work on data journalism production that drills down the models, narratives, and ethics.From idea to concept and then to ...

Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greate...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a macro level by regarding users as cons...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full...

This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusin...

As the second volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a micro level. examining the mediatized...

This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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...