Media studies

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In this lucid and intelligent guide, John Nerone traces the history of the media in public life.

Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses.

Sexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories.

From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation.

Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch.

How are grey market imports changing media industries?

For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle.

Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics.

In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies.

In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the euphoric moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.

Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture.

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes.

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution.

Americans are obsessed with celebrities.

Where is sociology in contemporary media studies?

Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a global digital society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at the intersection of technologies of speed, distant ethics and a pervasive cultural anxiety.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

Radio s influence can be found in almost every corner of new media.

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world.

The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century.

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.

New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initiatives and public and political discourse.

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life .

We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight.

The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies.

In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age.

In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and global reach of celebrity politics today.

In the twenty-first century, promotion is everywhere and everything has become promotable: everyday goods and organizations, people and ideas, cultures and futures.

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Blogging provides an accessible study of a now everyday phenomenon and places it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context.

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society.

This is a major new assessment of the American movie industry in the 1990's, focusing on the development of new communication technologies such as cable and home video and examining their impact on the production and distribution of motion pictures.

This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.

In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in pop videos, politics and popular culture have become inextricably interlinked.

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "e;second media age"e;.

Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization.

Radio in the Global Age offers a fresh, up-to-date, and wide-ranging introduction to the role of radio in contemporary society.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

Twitter has become a household name, discussed both for its role in prominent national elections, natural disasters, and political movements, as well as for what some malign as narcissistic chatter.

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism.

Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged.

What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting?

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment.

Journalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism and democracy.

Friedrich Kittler was one of the world s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists.

Objectivity in journalism is a key topic for debate in media, communication and journalism studies, and has been the subject of intensive historical and sociological research.

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times?

Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left.

It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies.

WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era.