Society & Culture: General

Where does 'art' come from, and what is the 'meaning' of creativity? What inspires an artist in the middle phase of life and what value is placed ...

How does Instagram shape how we relate to each other online? Are users concerned about privacy when documenting their lives in fine detail? How doe...

Contemporary popular media has been marked by its startling ability to morph into a wide variety of formats, fed by the ongoing revolution in digit...

Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have directly impacted the way in which politics operates today. Bringing together resea...

'His moral courage shines through from the start.' - Sunday Telegraph The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and po...

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change explores the relationships between mass media, social movements, and political ch...

This book concentrates on the parallel evolution of debt crisis and digital communications in Greece. By examining four different online and social...

The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us onl...

Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decade...

Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss, and yet death and dying are topics that are rarely discussed or ana...

What do people know about the Bible, and how much do they know? The media often discusses the worrying 'decline' in biblical literacy, but what doe...

«Dr. Laima Vinc Sruoginis, an established author, academic, and life-long part of the North American Lithuanian diaspora, courageously faces Lithua...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book seeks broader...

Although tattoos have become increasingly available to us, there are still spaces where they are not accepted, and even 'othered'. Looking at the U...

Selected as one of The Tablets Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each...

Death consumes our lives. As such, it is unsurprising that our leisure time, recreational activities and playful exploits are also infatuated with ...

Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original ...

Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucaults t...

As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased, yet traditional screenwriting techni...

Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one ...

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics...

Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. Sor...

Fascinating. Perspective A fascinating, often funny, and eminently stylish personal memoir I loved it. - Chris Breward, author of The Suit Wide...

China is transforming Africa's information space. It is assisting African broadcasters with extensive loans, training and exchange programmes and h...