Media studies

This book investigates how individual politicians and political parties strategically make use of the media to reach their political goals.

This book brings together contributions from scholars across Europe to present findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences and audience analysis, looking towards an increasingly datafied world and anticipating the ubiquity of the internet of things.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This book follows the ways in which women negotiate and navigate between their feminist identities and their belonging to science fiction fandoms that at times disregard or dismiss them.

Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R.

This book takes as its starting point the assumption that interpersonal communication is a crucial aspect of successful language learning.

This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film.

This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents.

This book presents a new methodology, ludonarrative synchronicity, to analyze the interplay between narrative and gameplay in video games.

This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father.

This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 20th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2021, which took place virtually on December 11, 2021.

This book takes a human-centred and concept-led journey through communication theory and is aimed primarily at those who are new to communication studies.

This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media.

This book examines how technologies are changing, will change, or could change the relationship between audiences and news media.

This book explores how digital storytelling can catalyze change in healthcare.

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media.

This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports' "e;toy department"e; reputation as a field whose standards are often criticized as lacking in rigor and depth compared to other forms of journalism.

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today.

Social networks have created a plethora of problems regarding privacy and the protection of personal data.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

The Ministry of Truth scrutinizes the information market in the era of the attention economy calling on citizens, public educators and politicians to action in averting the role of BigTech in critical infrastructure.

This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style.

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces.

This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness.

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality.

Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback.

This book examines the complexities of the hipster through the lens of art history and cultural theory, from Charles Baudelaire's flaneur to the contemporary "e;creative"e; borne from creative industries policies.

This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.

This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission.

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime.

This book reveals the core features of digital culture, examined by means of semiotic models and theories.

This book interrogates the ways in which new technological advances impact the thought and practices of humanism.

This book argues for an overhaul of the way media assistance is evaluated, and explores how new thinking about evaluation can reinforce the shifts towards better media development.

This volume analyzes the contexts in which emerging economies in Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia can chart their socioeconomic futures through progressive democratic practices and media engagement.

Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media.

This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation).

The book covers tools in the study of online social networks such as machine learning techniques, clustering, and deep learning.

This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics?

This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in US v.

This book investigates what influence online incivility-through user-generated comments on news websites-has on public debate.

This book addresses the current resurgence of interest in feminism-notably within popular culture and media-that has led some to announce the arrival of the fourth wave.

Subscription video on demand (SVOD) represents the fastest-growing means to consume films and series.

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time.

This book argues that online harassment communities function as Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) where the collective goal is to ruin peoples' lives.

Insurgent Skin: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionary because it disrupts heteronormative and binary representation and explores new, queer signifying modes.

This book explores social media and technology across the lifespan.

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

This book argues that 3D films are becoming more sophisticated in utilising stereoscopic effects for storytelling purposes.