Cultural and media studies

What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting?

Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation.

Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj i ek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the so-called human sciences that have transformed the terms of discussion in these fields.

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.

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others we simply take them for granted.

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.

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing.

This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past.

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture.

Today, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes.

This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States.

Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media.

Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it.

This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people s lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice.

The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate.

The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds.

Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization.

For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.

YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video.

Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them?

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new disease , that of obesity .

It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book.

This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society.

Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot.

Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America s most successful export.

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies.

The media are home to an eclectic bunch of people.

The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globalization.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work.

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation.

In this new book, Slavoj i ek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of i ek s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.

The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to some of the major points of debate in the media today.

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today.

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity.

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use.

What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century?

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression.

What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations?

This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to the most recent developments in the media industries.

The rise of digital photography and imaging has transformed the landscape of visual communication and culture.

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses.

The steady rise of Clint Eastwood s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption.

Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives.

The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "e;new media ecology"e; that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror.