Media studies

This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital practices.

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks.

This book provides a cutting edge analysis of the rapid rise of China's network society and reviews recent key developments within China's internet economy, notably the concepts of "e;Lucky Money"e; and E-Business on Wechat, and Crowd-Funding Platforms.

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the economy of attention from the perspective of the basic motive of the pursuit of attention: self-esteem.

This book is about the ways U.

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically.

This edited book presents a cross-disciplinary and international conversation about the discursive nature of 'populist' politics.

Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme-philosophy as the art of living-and gives it a contemporary twist.

This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror.

This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy.

The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies.

This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner-theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making.

During the 2010s in Turkey, LGBTQ activists, groups, and individuals persisted against social, political, and legal adversity.

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.

In today's digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments.

This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty.

This book considers the production of political media content from the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the ranks of voices charged with informing the public.

EU communications policy has massively changed due to both global competition on the ICT market and technological developments that led to the emergence of Internet technology.

This book addresses big data as a socio-technical construct with huge potential for innovation in key sectors such as healthcare, government and business.

This book offers a considered voice on the advertising chaos that colours our rapidly changing media environment in a world of fake news, fast facts and seriously depleted attention stamina.

This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.

The purpose of this volume is to broaden scholars' analytical perspective by placing the creative industries in frameworks that compare and contrast them with other kinds of entities, organizations, and social forms that mix creativity and production.

Being a successful manager or entrepreneur in the media and digital sector requires creativity, innovation, and performance.

This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe.

This book explores how community radio contributes to social change.

Celebrity and Mediated Social Connections is a critical examination of the multiple realities of the mediated culture we traverse, extending from our imaginary inner worlds to the imagined communities of digital media.

This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development.

Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era tells the stories of significant women's page journalists who contributed to the women's liberation movement and the journalism community.

Can the stories people tell influence the way they see the world?

This book illuminates how the 'long eighteenth century' (1660-1800) persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing and visual art.

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.

This book constitutes a journey into the obscure field of sectarian-guided discourses of radical Islamist groups.

This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky.

This anthology examines how immigrants and their US-born children use media to negotiate their American identity and how audiences engage with mediated narratives about the immigrant experience (cultural adjustments, language use, and the like).

This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy.

The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy.

First published in 1967, The American Male explores broad social patterns and major societal trends as they affect men in America.

This textbook provides a succinct, contemporary introduction to intercultural communication with a focus on actual language use.

This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today's transmedia storytelling.

This book looks at the representation of viruses in rhetoric, politics, and popular culture.

This book examines how rhetorically effective uses of silence and materiality mediate feminist activism and discusses the implications of these dynamics for pedagogy.

This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia.

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions.

This multidisciplinary volume brings together wide-ranging empirical research that goes behind the scenes of diverse organizations dealing with business, politics, law, media, education, and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold in situ.

We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games.

This volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on a set of transformations in social practices that modify the meaning of everyday interactions, and especially those that affect the world of labour.

This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli 'conflict' by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion.

This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves.