Media studies

Western commentators have often criticized the state of press freedom in China, arguing that individual speech still suffers from arbitrary restrictions and that its mass media remains under an authoritarian mode.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interaction and Player Research in Game Development, WIPlay 2025, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2025.

Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen.

This book invites readers into a space of reflection, emotion, and ethical inquiry.

This book examines the relation between agitation and social change in the digital context.

Das Buch bietet eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die Qualitative Netzwerkforschung.

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium's numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s.

This book examines the pervasive phenomenon of trauma and its narrative representation in social media platforms.

Conflicts of interest and competing demands are a defining feature of complex, rapidly changing societies.

This book explores how WhatsApp is transforming multilateral diplomacy.

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies.

This book examines the practices of teaching oncology communication to health professionals.

After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings.

This book invites readers into a space of reflection, emotion, and ethical inquiry.

 #Barbie and Social Media delves into Barbie’s transformation from doll to global cultural icon–one that is deeply embedded in contemporary social media discourse.

This book examines the practices of teaching oncology communication to health professionals.

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium's numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s.

mediendiskurs 112, 2/2025Rache fasziniert als soziales, kulturelles und psychologisches Phänomen.

Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective brings together a global group of leading and emerging scholars to explore industry practices and theoretical approaches to fact-checking.

Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective brings together a global group of leading and emerging scholars to explore industry practices and theoretical approaches to fact-checking.

Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema is the first systematic study of the role ideology plays in film festivals' construction of dominant ideas about art cinema.

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the 20th century and into the 21st.

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered.

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny.

Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema.

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication.

The Amsterdam ring of canals is a much beloved location for Dutch book publishers.

Theme Park Fandom argues that serious study of theme parks and their adult fans has much to tell us about contemporary transmediality and convergence, themed and immersive spaces, and audience relationships with places of meaning.

This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it.

In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry's incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research.

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption.

Fanvids, or vids, are short videos created in media fandom.

Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next.

All the world's a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities.

American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated.

Social media platforms have been pivotal in redefining the conduct of contemporary society.

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication-the email, blog, text message, tweet-are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary.

Conjuring up all the glamour of the event, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout.

This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the developing field of media archaeology.

We normally think of early film as being black and white, but the first color cinematography appeared as early as the first decade of the twentieth century.

Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world.

This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it.

Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age.

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers.

If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation.

Performative Images draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology.

Film Authorship in Contemporary Transmedia Culture: The Paratextual Lives of Asian Auteurs examines film authorship in the transmedia era whereby film directors have become public figures through a wide range of textual, material, and performative practices.

Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema.

Erich Horl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive.