Media studies

This book illuminates the lived experience of a group of primary school children engaged in virtual world play during a year-long after-school club.

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.

This book places a focus on the regimes of in/visibility and representation in Europe and offers an innovative perspective on the topic of global capitalism in relation to questions of race, class, gender and migration, as well as historicization of biopolitics and (de)coloniality.

This book investigates the changes and continuities in the ways in which sexual violence has been interpreted and represented in Britain since 1965.

This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future.

This book deals with the changes in Korea's media governance between 1980 and 2017.

During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee's repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee's growing authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news stories in the United States.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences.

This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change.

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway's influential "e;Cyborg Manifesto"e; was published.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

This book critically analyses user-firm technology relationships and socioeconomic structures at the crossroads of community and commerce.

This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary.

This book presents selected proceedings from two installments of the MAD Conference in 2020-MAD Blockchain 2020 and MAD Artificial Intelligence 2020.

This book proposes a new approach to the study of discourse in documentary film.

From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo-this collection of essays shows how the classics of children's literature have been transformed across languages, genres, and diverse media forms.

This book focuses on innovations in culture having the potential to drive overall development.

This book investigates the relationship between the self and screen in the digital age, and examines how the notion of the self is re-negotiated and curated online.

This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.

This book interrogates the existing theories of convergence culture and audience engagement within the media and communication disciplines by providing grounded examples of social media use as a social mobilization tool within the media industries.

This book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the European Union (EU) refugee crisis.

This edited book focuses on the certifiers of scientific knowledge, bringing together experts in a variety of areas in Applied Linguistics to address the complex topic of editing and reviewing in writing for scholarly publication.

This book investigates how individual politicians and political parties strategically make use of the media to reach their political goals.

This book brings together contributions from scholars across Europe to present findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences and audience analysis, looking towards an increasingly datafied world and anticipating the ubiquity of the internet of things.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This book follows the ways in which women negotiate and navigate between their feminist identities and their belonging to science fiction fandoms that at times disregard or dismiss them.

Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R.

This book takes as its starting point the assumption that interpersonal communication is a crucial aspect of successful language learning.

This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film.

This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents.

This book presents a new methodology, ludonarrative synchronicity, to analyze the interplay between narrative and gameplay in video games.

This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father.

This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 20th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2021, which took place virtually on December 11, 2021.

This book takes a human-centred and concept-led journey through communication theory and is aimed primarily at those who are new to communication studies.

This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media.

This book examines how technologies are changing, will change, or could change the relationship between audiences and news media.

This book explores how digital storytelling can catalyze change in healthcare.

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media.

This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This handbook is one of the first comprehensive research and teaching tools for the developing area of global media ethics.

This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports' "e;toy department"e; reputation as a field whose standards are often criticized as lacking in rigor and depth compared to other forms of journalism.

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today.

Social networks have created a plethora of problems regarding privacy and the protection of personal data.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

The Ministry of Truth scrutinizes the information market in the era of the attention economy calling on citizens, public educators and politicians to action in averting the role of BigTech in critical infrastructure.

This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style.

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces.

This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness.