Interdisciplinary studies

Conventional wisdom suggests that the pervasiveness of digital media into our everyday lives is undermining cherished notions of politics and ethics.

The widespread uptake of digital platforms from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways.

We are facing an unprecedented environmental crisis.

This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times.

Since the rise of the smartphone, apps have become entrenched in billions of users' daily lives.

Since 2006, Henry Jenkins's Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog has hosted interviews in which academics, activists, and artists have shared their views on the changing media landscape.

Our media systems are in crisis.

We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world.

There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate.

News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action.

Does exposure to media violence make us more violent?

In the wake of the MeToo movement, revelations of sexual assault and harassment continue to disrupt sexual politics across the globe.

Facebook has fundamentally changed how the world connects.

Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the digital divide the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without has persisted for close to twenty-five years.

Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010.

Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash.

Contemporary societies demand clear-minded, evidence-based ideas to address complex social issues.

From caf culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life.

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Communication studies is a fragmented field.

Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis.

Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries.

This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization.

Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live.

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing.

Introduction to any complex international conflict is enriched when the voices of the adversaries are heard.

With more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century.

Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently.

What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war?

For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace.

Media are poetic forces.

Can we talk about the news media without proclaiming journalism either our savior or the source of all evil?

The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises.

Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T.

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world.

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent.

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings.

China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs.

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan.

In the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline.

This inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet.

Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies.

Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years.

Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years.

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.

In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind.

Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion.

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains.

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains.

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.