Cultural and media studies

This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self.

Since the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world.

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus.

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno.

Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W.

Europe is Europe s last remaining realistic political utopia.

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States.

This volume brings together Habermas's key writings on language and communication.

"e;Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey.

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

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life.

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

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

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption.

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?

Who exactly are the intellectuals ?

What is intellectual history?

We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age.

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.

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race.

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.

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.

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time.

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.

Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life.

Americans are obsessed with celebrities.

Where is sociology in contemporary media studies?

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime.

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.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.

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.

This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists.

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.

Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways.

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.

Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics.

Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years.

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.