Media studies

Social and cultural factors can strongly influence how we approach death and dying, including attitudes towards death, rituals and practices surrounding death, and end-of-life care.

Global and Local Trends in Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship explores the cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurial shifts transforming how media is created, distributed, and consumed worldwide.

First published in 1985, Communication and Persuasion examines the subject of persuasion from a broader perspective, encouraging readers to analyze the social and psychological factors alongside the various verbal and non-verbal agencies and media through which influence is often exerted.

An essential guide to writing and editing for digital media, this sixth edition responds to the mainstreaming of genAI (Generative AI) and LLMs (Large Language Models), among many other changes in the best practices of digital storytelling.

Global and Local Trends in Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship explores the cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurial shifts transforming how media is created, distributed, and consumed worldwide.

First published in 1985, Communication and Persuasion examines the subject of persuasion from a broader perspective, encouraging readers to analyze the social and psychological factors alongside the various verbal and non-verbal agencies and media through which influence is often exerted.

Based on an analysis of 22 crisis cases from 20 countries and NATO (an IGO), this book highlights the link between socio-cultural variables and crisis communication.

Now in its sixth edition, Data for Journalists is a straightforward and effective guide to using data for news stories.

In the second edition of this critical primer, Michael Z.

In the second edition of this critical primer, Michael Z.

This book reviews the effects of the professional use of social media on science and scholarship, providing practical tips, tools, and guidelines for platforms, practices, and routines on social media for academics.

Practicing Digital Ethnography offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential methods, concepts, and practices of conducting ethnographic research in digital environments.

Now in its sixth edition, Data for Journalists is a straightforward and effective guide to using data for news stories.

This book helps readers understand the persuasiveness of popular message levels (agenda, knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intention) and factors (sidedness, conclusiveness, and gain- or loss-framing) in communicating critical environmental issues, particularly the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus.

While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment.

This book examines how far-right politics and news media shape one another, exposing, contesting, and at times inadvertently legitimising white supremacist, violent misogynist, and other far-right ideas.

This book examines how digital platforms are reconfiguring the parameters of agency and reflexivity in contemporary social life.

This book examines how digital platforms are reconfiguring the parameters of agency and reflexivity in contemporary social life.

This book reviews the effects of the professional use of social media on science and scholarship, providing practical tips, tools, and guidelines for platforms, practices, and routines on social media for academics.

Practicing Digital Ethnography offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential methods, concepts, and practices of conducting ethnographic research in digital environments.

The third edition of this text continues to provide a comprehensive and practical introduction to the field of interpersonal communication, linking theory to the everyday so that readers may navigate personal, social, and professional situations in ways that are fulfilling and effective.

This book examines BRICS+ countries as a post-Cold War emerging response to the compelling consequences of unipolar order and the overbearing effects of non-military security issues such as internal security, public health security, disaster management, and the role of media.

This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences.

While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment.

The term social media influencer can be used in relation to a variety of entertainment, activist, commercial, amateur, professional and alternative faces and/or figures.

Social and cultural factors can strongly influence how we approach death and dying, including attitudes towards death, rituals and practices surrounding death, and end-of-life care.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

This comprehensive study offers an examination of China's Internet celebrity ("e;Wang Hong"e;) phenomenon through a critical political economy framework, investigating how social media platforms, talent agencies, and e-commerce systems intersect to create a complex digital labour ecosystem.

This edited book examines the cultural construction of the “public child” and its impact on children’s rights in Australia.

This book offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards' use of Instagram and official websites.

The book in an innovative way interconnects theology, media and politics in order to understand masculinity in terms of everydayness, virtual circulations, cinematic projections, musical ramifications and political assertions.

Situated within feminist media and cultural studies, this book examines the everyday aesthetic labour of young middle-class Chinese women and their related social media practices.

An essential guide to writing and editing for digital media, this sixth edition responds to the mainstreaming of genAI (Generative AI) and LLMs (Large Language Models), among many other changes in the best practices of digital storytelling.

This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences.

The book in an innovative way interconnects theology, media and politics in order to understand masculinity in terms of everydayness, virtual circulations, cinematic projections, musical ramifications and political assertions.

Musicians have access to an ever-growing array of technological tools, creating a world rich with new artistic possibilities.

Musicians have access to an ever-growing array of technological tools, creating a world rich with new artistic possibilities.

Machine Music: How AI is Transforming Music's Next Act explores the seismic impact of AI on the music industry - offering a sweeping yet grounded analysis of how AI and generative tools are reshaping what it means to make, monetize, and experience music.

Governance Models in Public Service Media presents the solutions for European Public Service Media to face its new governance models in a new media landscape with new realities and challenges that affect legality, sustainability, financing, and start-up, without losing its public value and its commitment to society.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

Governance Models in Public Service Media presents the solutions for European Public Service Media to face its new governance models in a new media landscape with new realities and challenges that affect legality, sustainability, financing, and start-up, without losing its public value and its commitment to society.

This book pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, agendas, and poieses during a transformative period in the Atlantic world, the long nineteenth century.

The term social media influencer can be used in relation to a variety of entertainment, activist, commercial, amateur, professional and alternative faces and/or figures.

This book pays respect to different embodiments of Black editors in the Atlantic world, highlighting that from North to South America to Great Britain they occupied and promoted multifaceted roles, agendas, and poieses during a transformative period in the Atlantic world, the long nineteenth century.

Situated within feminist media and cultural studies, this book examines the everyday aesthetic labour of young middle-class Chinese women and their related social media practices.

This book offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards' use of Instagram and official websites.

Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Sport and Film examines the social, cultural, historical, and ideological significance of representations of sport in film around the world.

This comprehensive study offers an examination of China's Internet celebrity ("e;Wang Hong"e;) phenomenon through a critical political economy framework, investigating how social media platforms, talent agencies, and e-commerce systems intersect to create a complex digital labour ecosystem.

Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Sport and Film examines the social, cultural, historical, and ideological significance of representations of sport in film around the world.

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry.