Media studies

This book argues that media and capitalism no longer exist as separated entities, and posits three reasons why one can no longer exist without the other.

This book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime.

Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

This textbook offers a practical guide to creating narratives in audio media.

This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism.

This book provides a cultural studies analysis of Millennials and their impact on American culture and society.

How can we make sense of the current age of global political disruption when populism leaves norms overturned and the future form of democracy unpredictable?

Is digitalization a value-added approach?

Social media initiatives, when effectively used and correctly monetized, can engage customers better and provide higher ROI rates than traditional marketing and sales initiatives.

This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education,  society and communication in design practice, and related ones.

In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different values in media companies and media managers' decisions.

This book examines the ethics of virtual reality (VR) technologies.

This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction.

This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries.

This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled 'prostitute'.

This book advances organic public engagement methods based on ecological thinking.

This book proposes a new theorisation when studying cyber dissidents in an African digital sphere.

This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics.

Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place.

Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds-from queer as 'LGBT' to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum-intersects with games and the social contexts of play.

This volume showcases innovative research on dialectal, vernacular, and other forms of "e;oral,"e; speech-like writing in digital spaces.

This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it.

This book explores the processes through which European solidarity is constructed.

This edited volume discusses the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding changes in journalism in the digital era.

This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative ways.

This book explores various aspects of transnationalism and comics art in six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries/territories.

This book illuminates the lived experience of a group of primary school children engaged in virtual world play during a year-long after-school club.

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

This book places a focus on the regimes of in/visibility and representation in Europe and offers an innovative perspective on the topic of global capitalism in relation to questions of race, class, gender and migration, as well as historicization of biopolitics and (de)coloniality.

This book investigates the changes and continuities in the ways in which sexual violence has been interpreted and represented in Britain since 1965.

This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future.

This book deals with the changes in Korea's media governance between 1980 and 2017.

During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee's repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee's growing authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news stories in the United States.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences.

This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change.

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway's influential "e;Cyborg Manifesto"e; was published.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

This book critically analyses user-firm technology relationships and socioeconomic structures at the crossroads of community and commerce.

This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary.

This book presents selected proceedings from two installments of the MAD Conference in 2020-MAD Blockchain 2020 and MAD Artificial Intelligence 2020.

This book proposes a new approach to the study of discourse in documentary film.

From Struwwelpeter to Peter Rabbit, from Alice to Bilbo-this collection of essays shows how the classics of children's literature have been transformed across languages, genres, and diverse media forms.

This book focuses on innovations in culture having the potential to drive overall development.

This book investigates the relationship between the self and screen in the digital age, and examines how the notion of the self is re-negotiated and curated online.

This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.

This book interrogates the existing theories of convergence culture and audience engagement within the media and communication disciplines by providing grounded examples of social media use as a social mobilization tool within the media industries.

This book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the European Union (EU) refugee crisis.

This edited book focuses on the certifiers of scientific knowledge, bringing together experts in a variety of areas in Applied Linguistics to address the complex topic of editing and reviewing in writing for scholarly publication.