Media studies

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality.

Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback.

This book examines the complexities of the hipster through the lens of art history and cultural theory, from Charles Baudelaire's flaneur to the contemporary "e;creative"e; borne from creative industries policies.

This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.

This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission.

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime.

This book reveals the core features of digital culture, examined by means of semiotic models and theories.

This book interrogates the ways in which new technological advances impact the thought and practices of humanism.

This book argues for an overhaul of the way media assistance is evaluated, and explores how new thinking about evaluation can reinforce the shifts towards better media development.

This volume analyzes the contexts in which emerging economies in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia can chart their socioeconomic futures through progressive democratic practices and media engagement.

Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media.

This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation).

The book covers tools in the study of online social networks such as machine learning techniques, clustering, and deep learning.

This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics?

This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in US v.

This book investigates what influence online incivility-through user-generated comments on news websites-has on public debate.

This book addresses the current resurgence of interest in feminism-notably within popular culture and media-that has led some to announce the arrival of the fourth wave.

Subscription video on demand (SVOD) represents the fastest-growing means to consume films and series.

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time.

This book argues that online harassment communities function as Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) where the collective goal is to ruin peoples' lives.

Insurgent Skin: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionary because it disrupts heteronormative and binary representation and explores new, queer signifying modes.

This book explores social media and technology across the lifespan.

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

This book argues that 3D films are becoming more sophisticated in utilising stereoscopic effects for storytelling purposes.

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response.

This is the second edition of the undergraduate textbook 'Social Media Management' which extends the original edition's scope beyond the business angle.

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film.

This edited collection brings together leading international scholars to explore the connection between Brexit and the media.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

This volume explores the dialogue between Arab media and global developments in the information age, looking at the influence of new technologies in Arab societies and the evolving role of Arab women in 'old' and 'new' media.

"e;Cancel culture"e; has become one of the most charged concepts in contemporary culture and politics, but mainstream critiques from both the left and the right provide only snapshots of responses to the phenomenon.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mama tambien are only the best-known examples.

Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the social practices around them) since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa.

This book brings together the established field of political communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to develop new questions and approaches.

This book argues that we are witnessing the emergence of 'commercial democracy' in which public relations, promotional culture and the media play a new, central role.

This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges.

This book provides a timely political insight to show how mythology plays an affective role in our lives.

This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the Argentine magazine Punto de Vista (1978-2008), a cultural review that gathered together prominent Argentine intellectuals throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century.

The most unique aspect of Korean shamanism is its mysterious duality that continually reiterates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization.

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work.

This book examines the use and re-use of digital archives in a unique manner, by combining theoretical and practical approaches to the contemporary digital archive.

This book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children's relationship with the media, avoiding the "e;risks and benefits"e; paradigm while examining very young children's interactions with film and television.

This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B.

This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China's twenty-first century.

This book examines the convergent paths of the Internet and the American military, interweaving a history of the militarized Internet with analysis of a number of popular Hollywood movies in order to track how the introduction of the Internet into the war film has changed the genre, and how the movies often function as one part of the larger Military-Industrial- Media-Entertainment Network and the Total War Machine.

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse and communication studies, redressing the gap in research on Wikipedia in these fields and encouraging scholars to explore Wikipedia further as a platform and a medium.

The participatory turn in media, arts and design along with interrelated developments in the proliferation of social and network media have changed our understanding of the contemporary mediascape.

Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and future of feminist research and theory at the intersections of women, gender, media, activism, and academia.