Cultural and media studies

This second volume focuses on primary trauma experienced by journalists, with a particular focus on the gendered dimensions, as shared by female journalists and researchers.

This edited volume conducts linguistic and literary analyses of the discourse involving race, religion and royalty (3R) in Malaysia.

This book brings together the research of leading scholars who explore the complex interplay between language and art.

This book studies the approach Thomas Ritchie’s Richmond Enquirer took on the Haitian Revolution.

Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality at Work offers an accessible guide to conducting linguistic research in gender, sexuality and work.

This timely edited volume challenges the potentially simplistic blame narratives surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), urging instead a shared ethical responsibility among users, researchers, policymakers, and others.

Combining both an industry and research focus, How to Judge a Book by its Cover not only judges books by their covers but provides a methodology for others to do the same.

On Value and Valuation asks whether the category of economic value remains theoretically viable, how value is formed, and how it should be understood.

On Value and Valuation asks whether the category of economic value remains theoretically viable, how value is formed, and how it should be understood.

Drag: The Basics offers a concise, critical, and intersectional exploration of drag performance through its rich histories, theories, practices, and politics across global contexts.

This book delineates tribal knowledge systems and emphasizes their multidisciplinary nature.

This book examines the transformative impact of generative AI on cultural production, with a particular focus on how AI technologies like ChatGPT are reshaping the creation of popular culture.

Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution-through its adaptation by French Theory and French Theory's subsequent adaptation by Chinese Experimental Architecture-shaped the Chinese reformative effort to redefine itself, amidst its struggle against colonial dynamics, and against the Cultural Revolution.

Combining both an industry and research focus, How to Judge a Book by its Cover not only judges books by their covers but provides a methodology for others to do the same.

Gregory Camp shows that the choice and use of music in Disney theme parks is very much grounded in Disney's experience with storytelling on film and television, and that Disney's musical storytelling in the parks is built upon the concept of nostalgia.

This book explores the gendered and racial lived everyday and sporting experiences of Brown migrant young women and girls in Fiji.

Sport, Media and Discrimination provides critical, inter-disciplinary and international perspectives on how sports media constructs and reinforces discrimination in contemporary societies.

Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality at Work offers an accessible guide to conducting linguistic research in gender, sexuality and work.

This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different times, cultures and places.

This book explores Greenpeace's efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization's controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.

Why does political life in Iran feel so deeply tragic-despite the country's abundant resources, youthful population, and rich cultural history?

This short book examines the dynamic and complex nature of free speech, with reference to criminal law.

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Written from an equitable data perspective, Questioning Technology: Addressing Divisive Data in Research and Practice translates the pressing challenges within data collection, data categorization and data commercialisation to enable researchers, SMEs, and practitioners to better question why and how they use data.

Media Literacy and E-Democracy in the EU examines the crucial role of media literacy in strengthening e-democracy within the European Union (EU).

This edited volume offers a comprehensive revaluation of Trauma and Memory Studies, foregrounding perspectives from India and beyond.

This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.

Now in its third edition, Mobile and Social Media Journalism continues to be an essential resource for those learning about how journalists and news organizations use mobile and social media to gather news, distribute content, and engage with audiences.

This book seeks to understand and display the complex relationships between wines and genders in a comprehensive manner.

Why does political life in Iran feel so deeply tragic-despite the country's abundant resources, youthful population, and rich cultural history?

This book explores the gendered and racial lived everyday and sporting experiences of Brown migrant young women and girls in Fiji.

This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different times, cultures and places.

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of China's Global Initiatives launched between 2021 and 2023 as elements of a coherent strategy intended to construct a Chinese-led international order.

Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues serves as a solid foundational textbook for the intermediate and advanced levels in two volumes, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of language and concepts.

City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines the transformative impact of generative AI on cultural production, with a particular focus on how AI technologies like ChatGPT are reshaping the creation of popular culture.

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the history of female-presenting AI and robots in US and UK live-action, science fiction films from 1949 to 2023.

Now in its third edition, Mobile and Social Media Journalism continues to be an essential resource for those learning about how journalists and news organizations use mobile and social media to gather news, distribute content, and engage with audiences.

This short book examines the dynamic and complex nature of free speech, with reference to criminal law.

This monograph explores how Chilean urban workers translated nineteenth-century European political philosophy according to their conditions, locality, and colonial history.

At a time when more films are released annually than there are days in the year, films must compete for audience attention.

2026 PROSE Award Finalist, Humanities: Literature Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism.

This book asks what it means to decolonize museums in theory and practice.

This book examines the recurring phenomenon in film and television where two strikingly similar productions are released in close succession.

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined?

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London's East End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of the entirety of the most infamous of crimes and their legacy for the first time.

This edited volume offers a comprehensive revaluation of Trauma and Memory Studies, foregrounding perspectives from India and beyond.

This book seeks to understand and display the complex relationships between wines and genders in a comprehensive manner.