Society & Culture: General

In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and ...

Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. Digital instruments ma...

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or Wh...

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 ...

Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Me...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. Taking int...

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...

Are you sceptical about the importance of arts and culture, especially about their possible impact on politics and the economy? This volume outline...

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeaus notion of the everyday as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shap...

Celebrities attract the attention of commercial interests and other public figures. They receive payments from sponsors to endorse brands. They are...

To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals. Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-ch...

This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in socia...

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 ...

A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondons fundam...

Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media lands...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. Taking int...

What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what kind of purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these question...

Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy....

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon hav...

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other...

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah invites 36 writers, artists, scholars, and activists to offer accessible reflections on 36 questions to he...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...

Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster en...

This series epitomizes the 2017 Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) conference themes of hyper-reality and cultural hybridization. The partnership of the...

While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new frameworks when approach...

This special issue is part two of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal ...

This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. Should we think of the legal ...

The world of James Bond is complex and ever growing. The British secret agent started off life as a semi-fictional, part-biographical character in ...

This multi-disciplinary edited collection explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English, including Yi...

Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the int...

Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the int...

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of par...

Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relèv...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

The complex and ever-evolving relationship between the public sector and civil society at large is high on the policy and political agenda for the ...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

A number of recent studies have responded to neoliberal understandings of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in the cultural and creative ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As digital technologies have become ever more ingrained in soci...

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of authenticity and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultu...