Communication studies

The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data.

In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture.

Shukri Z.

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

Edward Snowden's revelations about the mass surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world.

Niche fashion magazines speak to a highly fashion literate readership and mix the codes of style magazines, glossy women's magazines and art catalogues.

Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic 'changes' chronologically throughout his career.

Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.

Tarek Cherkaoui reveals how geo-political and ideological legacies of the past, which divide the world into a dichotomy of 'us' against 'them', play a dominant role in reinforcing the ensuing polarisation of our media.

The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data.

Does the internet facilitate social and political change, or even democratization, in the Middle East?

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States.

We still see many communication graduates with little business knowledge and business graduates with little communication knowledge.

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles relevant research focusing on ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean-two understudied areas of global importance.

Out with the old and in with the new!

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 10 of the Communication and Information Technologies Annual, Digital Distinctions & Inequalities, brings together nine studies of this increasingly important form of inequality.

This book examines different dimensions of digital communication and populism in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authentizität ist ein schillernder Begriff, der in unterschiedlichen Kontexten sehr Unterschiedliches bedeuten kann, der in Fachdiskursen ebenso zu Hause ist wie in den Diskursen der Populärkultur oder in der Alltagssprache.

The public relations industry is not just about celebrity gossip.

How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?

How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city?

How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city?

Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness.

This book gives an overview of altmetrics, its tools and how to implement them successfully to boost and measure research outputs.

This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms.

This is a book for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public.

In a world where privatisation and capitalism dominate the global economy, the essays in this book ask how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption.

With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type.

With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type.

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'.

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'.

This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency.

This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore the question of how audiences respond to TV offerings, and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency.

Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes' comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding.

How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook.

'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors' Sunday Times'Enjoyable .

Recently, fake news has become real news, making headlines as its consequences become crushingly obvious in political upsets and global turmoil.

Conspiracy theories are legion.

Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building.

What impact did the printing press a new means of communicating the written word have on early modern English lawyers?

What impact did the printing press a new means of communicating the written word have on early modern English lawyers?

Sport occupies a central position in Irish social and cultural life, yet has been relatively marginal within the academy.

This edited collection explores the intersections of populist communication, performative leadership and international politics.

The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?

Break into Travel Writing, Make it Pay the Easy Way.

The Writer's Internet is the essential guide to the World Wide Web for writers and authors.

All need to know about lifestyle writing and how to use your own experiences to start your writing career.