Society & Culture: General

This absorbing anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity. ...

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...

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

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...

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

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...