Moral Panics and Social Control in the COVID-19 Pandemic presents a series of case studies which focus on particular social processes and interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, applying the tools offered by classical studies on moral panic and moral panic theory to illuminate both political and popular responses.
Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.
Girls' Media in the Women's Liberation Era is a critical analysis and cultural history of popular girls' media narratives produced in the United States between 1968 and 1980-the era of the second-wave feminist movement-and girls' responses to those narratives.
This book offers a systematic account of communication on food aimed at children, investigating verbal and visual strategies used in food media in English from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Maximizing Research Impact: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Research Visibility offers a comprehensive guide for researchers, academics, and practitioners across disciplines who wish to increase the visibility, accessibility, and influence of their research outputs.
From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today.
This volume illuminates some of the manifold ways in which Britain's communication infrastructure affected everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain.
Winner of the 2026 Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra International Publications Prize (Premio Publicacoes Internacionais da FLUC)Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with representations of "e;Homeland"e; - a term that resurfaced with renewed intensity in the United States through the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 and gained traction across Europe, contributing to the formation of new securitarian configurations whose impact has resonated globally.
This book provides a comprehensive look at the persistent injustice women face in the media and highlights the key issues that prevent real gender equality in journalism.
As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between media and revolution seemed more significant than ever.
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films.
Dass Kritik nach dem Ende der großen Geschichte(n) weder als Lehre noch als Aufklärung, sondern als Reflexiv- und Problematisch-Werden von Entscheidungsprozeduren und Urteilsformen gedacht werden kann, souffliert Alexander Kluges Kunst- und Medienarbeit seit den frühen 60er-Jahren.
Networks of Belonging examines how digitally networked communication technologies create spaces of belonging for people of refugee and migrant backgrounds in resettlement contexts, focusing on Australia.
The Kentucky Irish American began life in 1898 as one of many ethnic newspapers in America, but by its final years it attracted an avid national audience of many ethnicities.
Maximizing Research Impact: Practical Strategies for Enhancing Research Visibility offers a comprehensive guide for researchers, academics, and practitioners across disciplines who wish to increase the visibility, accessibility, and influence of their research outputs.
In a current era marked by carceral logics, authoritarianism, and white supremacy, there has never been a greater need for the tools and inspiration that radical feminism provides.
More than being counter to what we must surely endeavour to consider the status quo of honesty, not to mention the pursuit of truth that should still be fundamental in academia and education more broadly, dishonesty involves deceit and thus victimisation, which is to say it tends to be used either against someone or to give someone an unfair advantage.
Die Urkatastrophe des Ersten Weltkriegs brachte das "Wert-Vakuum" (Hermann Broch) zum Vorschein, in dem sich eine spezifisch literarische Ethik ausbildete.
Das Erzählen in frühen Hochkulturen führt in seinem zweiten Band "Eine Archäologie der narrativen Sinnbildung" die bereits im Vorgängerband "Der Fall Ägypten" gestellten Fragen zu den Bedingungen des Erzählens in einer frühen Hochkultur nun im interdisziplinären Kontext fort.
Nick Clegg, formerly one of Meta s most senior executives, presents a blueprint for reforming Big Tech while preserving the essential openness of the internet Warns of the dangers posed to a free and open global internet by an age of autocrats and a titanic power struggle over AI GuardianAs democracies seek to curb the power of Big Tech, as authoritarian regimes like China and Russia isolate their populations from the internet, and as the AI race supercharges divisions between competing nations, the most powerful tool for bringing us together risks being dismantled.
UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIMECelebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike.
This state-of-the-art textbook provides a wide-ranging foundation to communication management - including corporate communication, public relations, and strategic communication - from an exclusively digital and global perspective.
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films.
This book explores how social and mobile media have been used in political campaigns since 2008, examining how social media are already being implemented as well as how these types of messaging platforms might be used in the future.
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
Representing the first collection of its kind, The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism introduces fundamental topics and ideas, delineates the diversity and complexity of this growing field, and creates a foundation for future scholarship and study.
