Media studies

The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements.

The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world.

This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women's lifestyle magazines, exposing the disconnection between the magazines' representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience.

The phenomenal growth of Chinese economic and military power in the first decade of the 21st century has drawn world-wide attention.

This book explores the impact of the print and broadcast media on public knowledge and understanding of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis.

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style'.

This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact.

The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts.

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia.

This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the everyday to analyse how ideas about youth and cyber-safety, digital inclusion and citizenship are mobilized.

This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action.

This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace.

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Smith and Pam Wilson on 'John Fiske and Television Culture'.

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'.

This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio.

Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art.

Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture.

Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japan's most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan with this penetrating analysis of popular culture in the post-war years.

This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television.

This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students.

In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities.

This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles.

During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times - both a symptom and a symbol of new social values.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

This key textbook traces the development of advertising from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, providing connections with the past that illuminate present developments and point to future possibilities.

This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic.

Sexuality is an integral part of our lives, and our identities.

We watch TV on computers, phones, and other mobile devices; television is now online as much as it is "e;on air.

This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media.

The ground upon which campaigns and elections are contested has been shifting rapidly in the last decade.

This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities.

This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.

Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form.

The average American listens to the radio three hours a day.

LGBT Identity and Online New Media examines constructions of LGBT identity within new media.

Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of iconic Black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean and the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern figure of the Sable-Saffron Venus as an 'alter/native- body'.

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor.

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture.

This is a detailed study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of "e;crimes"e; committed by foreigners.

This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the 'glocalised' digital world we live in.

In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24).

This edited collection of contributions from media scholars, film practitioners and film historians connects the vibrant fields of documentary and disability studies.

This edited book explores the history, development and use of technology in the policing of society, showing that technology plays a key, if not pivotal role in the work of law enforcement.

Global Terrorism and New Media carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today.

This timely publication offers a fresh scholarly assessment of political advertising across the EU, as well as an insight into differing political and regulatory systems related to political advertising in the individual member states.

This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period to the era of globalization.

This volume investigates the role of social media in European politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public discourse around the EU decision-making process.

This book charts the trajectory of travel journalism from its print based origins to the emergence of hybridised multi-platform content.

Social power, defined as "e;the ability to set standards, create norms and values that are deemed legitimate and desirable, without resorting to coercion or payment"e;, is a central part of contemporary international politics.