Media studies

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence.

This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid.

This book explains what it means to teach journalism in countries with limited media freedom in the post-pandemic era.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

Music Business: The Key Concepts, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today.

This handbook pursues an integrated communication approach.

This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment - the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles.

This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity.

This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet.

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life.

This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation.

This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point.

This edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises.

This book provides a rich description of the shifting production cultures in convergent Chinese television industries, through the examination of daily production practices, showing how they embody a new set of opportunities and tensions across strategic, programming and individual levels.

This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.

This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy of resistance and hope for marginalized social groups.

This book examines how ordinary users review cultural products online, ranging from books to films and other art objects to consumer products.

This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse.

This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news.

This book is a history of a prominent Ghanaian newspaper, the Ashanti Pioneer, as well as well-known figurers in the country itself.

The Present Image explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world.

This book argues that superhero revision offers new perspectives on the theory and practice of revision in broader contexts, in particular composition studies.

This book introduces the concept of narrative tradition to study representation in international politics.

This book presents more than 70 physics experiments from iPhysicsLabs-column of the Journal The Physics Teacher.

This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography.

This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women's films.

This book provides a study of governmental digitalization, an increasingly important area of policymaking within advanced capitalist states.

This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2012 by the media and the state.

This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South.

This book tackles the disconnect between social perceptions and expert knowledge regarding trade policy decisions.

This book explores Cold War journalism and journalists as threat, representing 'enemy' systems and ideologies.

This book provides a unique overview of the digital transformation media industries have experienced following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks.

This book considers what is at stake for professionals whose work increasingly involves communicating in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts, and argues for the need to better understand the crucial role of languages and cultures in the modern workplace.

Tradition in Creative Writing: Finding Inspiration Through Your Roots encourages writers to rediscover sources of creativity in the everyday, showing students how to see your writing as connected to your life.

This book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories.

This book, based on authoritative sources and reports, links environmental communication to different fields of competence: environment, sustainability, journalism, mass media, architecture, design, art, green and circular economy, public administration, big event management and legal language.

This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40.

This book reflects and analyzes the relationship between media and genre, focusing on both aesthetics and discursive meaning.

This book explores Alan Moore's career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place.

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences.

This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa.

This book brings together long-obscured histories to discuss Australia's cultural, social, and political diversity in depth.

This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives.

This book examines the reception of rhetoric and the rhetoric of reception.

Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria is a ground-breaking book that offers fresh perspectives on the character and role of the African media in covering corruption scandals.

This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media.

This book analyzes the ways in which China's soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms.