Media studies

Cultural Specificity in Transnational Television Drama examines two European television industries: those of Germany and Wales.

Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections delves into one of the most polarizing phenomena of the digital age.

This book offers an original analysis of the primacy of media spectacle in the politics, social history, and major events of the 21st century which highlights the importance of critical analysis and interpretation of broadcasting, the Internet, and social meaning in understanding the key historical events and the multiple factors that produce them during the contemporary era.

This book analyses 1960s-1970s US underground comix, a ‘counterculture’ art form that satirised mainstream values and taboos.

Within Africa, radio provides an important platform for accommodating diverse linguistic groups and enabling speakers to express themselves in their own local languages.

Communicology is Vilem Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination.

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of death for women worldwide.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

Martin Luther King used news cameras as a means of exposing anti-Black violence by white mobs in the 1950s and 60s.

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come.

Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance.

Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "e;unruly"e; communication practices in a quest for change.

In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police.

Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "e;talking records"e; and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works.

When people look back at the 2016 Election, they will use many words to describe it.

Radical Justice investigates the convoluted relationship between memory and justice as it is portrayed in political documentaries and detective fiction from Spain and the Southern Cone.

To what extent have political decision-making processes become mediatized?

This book explores issues at the intersection of communication and African electoral politics, taking Ghana's 2020 general election as a focus of investigation.

For the past five decades the Texas Observer has been an essential voice in Texas culture and politics, championing honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, while providing a platform for many of the states most passionate and progressive voices.

This timely volume offers an international and cross-disciplinary examination of risk and crisis communication theory and practice in Europe.

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This exciting 2015 volume of Best Sex Writing features a number of significant bloggers and some of the most important stories of the past two years.

This is the first interdisciplinary edited collection that examines the manifestation of social inequalities and polarisations in Britain throughout the dual crises of the Brexit vote and the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book explores sport communication in Africa and the African diaspora.

Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission argues that despite the prevalence of generational narratives within feminism, the technical processes through which knowledge is transmitted across generations remain unexplored.

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change explores the relationships between mass media, social movements, and political change.

Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA and MI5, has become part of everyday life.

Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests.

Taiwan is in danger of becoming the last isle, losing its sovereignty and identity.

Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition.

Media is a big part of our lives.

Sponsored by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume brings together nine studies of the digital public sphere.

As European business ties develop, how are they reflected in the way companies promote themselves?

Although art is taught around the world, art education policies and practices vary widely-and the opportunities for teachers to exchange information are few.

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture?

We Europeans?

In today's thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people.

Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years.

Media, Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent, cutting edge research on Europe, from social, political and cultural perspectives, equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe.

Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events as they develop, and news organizations around the world increasingly depend on these amateur images for their coverage of unfolding events.

Has the communication of politics become professionalised?

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women.

The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities.

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education.

Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning.

This book concentrates exclusively on the dialogic turn in the governance of science and the environment.

Digital Film and Television Culture introduces a new framework for the aesthetic and cultural analysis of contemporary film and serial drama, stars on social media and movie awards shows.

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).