Society & Culture: General

Memetic War analyses memetic warfare included in cyber war and aims to develop a framework for understanding the parameters included in utilising t...

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing m...

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...

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 ...

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone childrens and Young Adult literature from the ...

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer onl...

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the ...

The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the rol...

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 provides an account of parenting support initiatives in children and family services from a number of jurisdictions, paying particular at...

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 book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating ...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmedia...

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkiens legacy in Central Europe. ...

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...

Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. While often considered separately, the relati...

This book investigates Nigerias soft power capabilities in West Africa, demonstrating the extent to which the power of attraction may serve the cou...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

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...

Sadriddin Ayni (18781954) was a Tajik intellectual, regarded by many as one of the most important writers in the countrys history. This book provid...

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...

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist perio...

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.Restorative justi...

This book turns to the intellectual discourses that have emerged from India and Latin America, two outposts of the Global South, on the themes of i...

The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and soci...

'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph **NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE*...

A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a...

What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ...

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)...

Identity and Belonging examines the interplay between self and society and in doing so explores the complex nature of 'who we are' and 'how we come...

A cutting-edge volume on current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, sex worker activism, and ...

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...

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality. It provides comprehensive overviews of the mai...

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...