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...