Media Studies

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 ...