Media studies

This critical introductory text explores the role of advertising in contemporary culture and its connections to larger economic, social, and political forces.

This critical introductory text explores the role of advertising in contemporary culture and its connections to larger economic, social, and political forces.

In Pakistan, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women's rights.

The twenty-first century exploded into the global imagination with unforgettable scenes of death and destruction.

Violence and Understanding in Gaza is the first comprehensive investigation of the British broadsheets' coverage of the Gaza War.

Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of "body horror.

The rise in popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture began and is promoted as an official policy of the Korean government to revive the country's economy.

This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy?

Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age.

Stories, whether they are fact or fiction, popular or not, are a proven method of pedagogy.

A welcome addition to Palgrave's Global Media Policy and Business series, Internet Governance and the Global South documents the role of the global south in Internet policymaking and challenges the globalization theories that declared the death of the state in global decision-making.

Taking a contextual and historical approach, Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice provides an accessible introduction to the various stages of journalism's adoption and exploitation of technology from print to digital.

Taking a contextual and historical approach, Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice provides an accessible introduction to the various stages of journalism's adoption and exploitation of technology from print to digital.

This book covers various aspects of political communication in dissonant public spheres and their impact on democratic processes.

Nicht die Dauer der digitalen Medien-Nutzung ist das Problem, sondern die Inhalte, die Kinder konsumieren.

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative, film, and television adaptations.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

Many of today's digital platforms are designed according to the same model: they encourage users to create content for fun (a mode of production that some have termed playbour) and to earn points.

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory.

Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory.

Many of today's digital platforms are designed according to the same model: they encourage users to create content for fun (a mode of production that some have termed playbour) and to earn points.

In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press.

In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press.

During the first six decades of the twentieth century, when the majority of present-day Kenya was under the control of the British Empire, many secular newspapers emerged as the products of tensions between Asian and European immigrants, the British administration, and the African petite bourgeoisie.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative.

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.

In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative.

This textbook presents a theoretical framework for developing a personal standard of ethics that can be applied in everyday communication situations.

Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline's repertoire.

In our digital world, we are confused by privacy - what is public, what is private?

Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies.

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of "e;sunny Italy"e; with the radio listeners of Toronto.

Duncan Macpherson (1924-1993) was one of the greatest of Canadian cartoonists.

Premiering at Sundance in 2014, Desiree Akhavan's acclaimed debut feature, Appropriate Behavior, introduced the indie film world to the deadpan, irreverent wit that had already won over fans of her trailblazing LGBTQ web series The Slope.

In recent years every major institution has had to adapt to the fast-evolving technologies of the digital age or risk being left behind.

At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation.

A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere, Objectively Engaged Journalism argues that media should be neither neutral nor partisan but engaged in protecting egalitarian democracy.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

In our digital world, we are confused by privacy - what is public, what is private?

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

Media has long been considered a primary site for political discourse in Western liberal democracies, but now, with the advent of social media, giant multinational digital platforms such as Google, and online journalism, the way we do politics, talk politics, and cover politics has completely transformed.

Media has long been considered a primary site for political discourse in Western liberal democracies, but now, with the advent of social media, giant multinational digital platforms such as Google, and online journalism, the way we do politics, talk politics, and cover politics has completely transformed.

Does media history really start with a bang?

In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations.

In recent years every major institution has had to adapt to the fast-evolving technologies of the digital age or risk being left behind.

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of sunny Italy with the radio listeners of Toronto.

In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations.

Premiering at Sundance in 2014, Desiree Akhavan's acclaimed debut feature, Appropriate Behavior, introduced the indie film world to the deadpan, irreverent wit that had already won over fans of her trailblazing LGBTQ web series The Slope.

The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere.