Media studies Books

Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory critically examines the emergent field of podcasting in academia, revealing its significant impact on scholarly communication and approaches to research and knowledge creation. This collection presents in-depth...

Gazzetta Universale, O Sieno, Volume 15 offers a fascinating glimpse into 18th-century Italy through the lens of a historical gazette. This volume provides a detailed record of events, news, and cultural happenings, reflecting the political and social...

Den här boken är en ovärderlig vägledning för journalister och mediearbetare som vill förstå och arbeta i Afrikas mest komplexa och ofta förbisedda regioner. Med autentiska berättelser från konfliktdrabbade områden, politiskt känsliga miljöer och...

This book provides an overview of the current state of minority-language media, from policy formulation to practice, in various contexts around the world. In the same line, it presents the main challenges and new opportunities in view of digitalization...

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus combines in-depth analysis of the rapidly developing sport media industry with a clear and straightforward guide to practical sport media management skills.

Evans and Hayden offer a fresh, timely, and mixed-methods approach for understanding how the emergence of virtual offices has impacted the representational relationship between constituents and members of Congress.

"Fighter-Writer" reports from major battles in the Pacific highlight what America's Marines endured in World War IIDouglass K. Daniel presents a fascinating trove of previously classified material withheld from the public because of government and public...

Based on nearly a decade of research on police-media relations, and the first to undertake a deep ethnography of police communications and local news media in a single policing area, this book charts the emergence of an empowered professional police...

First Published in 1999. For the first time gathered together in book form, here are the influential writings of Moira Roth-articles, lectures, and inter­views-on the two men who for so long embodied the very spirit of the avant­garde, Marcel Duchamp and...

A unique record of the voices of Black Australia.

The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come dramatically into focus with the recent interest in such topics as queer performativity, cross-dressing, and racial passing. Identification Papers tracks the evolution...

This research reference introduces readers to the data mining technologies available for use in content analysis research. Supporting the increasingly popular trend of employing digital analysis methodologies in the humanities, arts, and social sciences,...

This book explores the relationship between the free software movement and freedom. Focusing on five main themes-the emancipatory potential of technology, social liberties, the facilitation of creativity, the objectivity of computing as a scientific...

This volume provides a timely and innovative look at the business aspects of social media. Examining social media in both descriptive and analytical ways, the chapters included herein present an overview of the social media industries, considering the...

The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. Media Events gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art, exploring the writings of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.

Anna Gough-Yates considers the rapid shift in women's magazines towards titles aimed at newly-identified 'lifestyle' groups of women readers.

Traces the changes in French notions of popular culture from 1936 to the present. `Culture' remains a fiercely contested term and Rigby examines the solutions offered by theorists such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Bourdieu.

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and...

This book explores the impact of, and lessons learned from, media development and training programs sponsored by the US government and non-governmental organizations in countries transitioning to democracy. This book will be of interest to media...

In Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy, Elena Block explores the links between declining democratic discourses, populist communication, and reflects on the communicative and moral dimensions of populism.Block proposes the concept...

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations.

Das Buch bietet filmsoziologische (Neu-)Vermessungen aktueller Konfigurationen des Dokumentarischen unter digitalen Bedingungen. Den empirischen Ausgangspunkt bilden die Ausdifferenzierungen und Veränderungen dokumentarischer Praktiken, die sich in ganz...

This book informs readers on how to understand, detect, and mitigate hate speech in online social media. The authors first cover the definition of hate speech and how its prevalence can be measured on online social media platforms using text and...

This edited anthology offers a collection of essays that each look at various types of wayfinding. Together they explore a variety of wayfinding tools and techniques and their applications, as well as ways of keeping track of the construction of worlds...

This book enables readers to discover their inner creative DNA by providing a strong dose of the four elements of the Creative Matrix -Interrogation, Information, Interpretation, and Inspiration. It generates a personal ideation system that produces...

In 2001, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer withdrew an anticholesteroldrug - Baycol/Lipobay - because the product was suspected to beconnected to several deaths. The alleged side-effects of the drug caused a bigPR crisis for Bayer that forced the...

This book proceeds from a simple question - "What prompted the Russian-Ukrainian war?"The answers are presented here in the words of primary sources: public statements and reporting from political actors, journalists and commentators addressed to...

This handbook takes an in-depth look at the transformative impact of social media on sport.

This pioneering collection addresses the prospective fundamental/human right not to use the internet and the challenges that the non-use of the internet poses for democracy.

Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to the practice of public interest communications, a profession that takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social...

Taking stock of research in an area that has long been starved of scholarly attention, The Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism brings together scholars from across journalism, communication, and media studies to offer the first substantial volume...

The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has...

The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are...

This edited book expands the applicability of peace journalism research beyond war to cover terrorism and radicalization, an issue that has not yet been touched by peace journalism scholars.

The second edition of The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 offers the freshest and most up-to-date history of American magazines through 2020. It includes chapters telling the stories of new magazine launches in each decade since 1900.

This edited volume brings new ideas to the study of national culture and organizational culture as it explores their naturally existing intersections.This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate coursework, and those interested in...

In this book we conceptualize mentoring in the context of critical communication pedagogy and intercultural communication pedagogy. Each chapter employs a critical and cultural lens to mentoring and offers discussions about how our cultural identities or...

By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author...

There is a struggle over governance of the global information network among national governments and international organizations, corporations and NGOs, elites and civil society. The outcome will determine how we communicate, the extent of our civil...

The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded in Marxist theory, and guided by feminism, Susan Willis's lucid and entertaining...

A Cultural Dictionary of the Chinese Language introduces the 500 most important cultural traits of the Chinese as reflected in language use, especially in Chinese idioms (chengyu), proverbs and colloquial expressions (suyu). Communicative competence,...

The new research presented in this volume suggests that general perceptions (cultural, psychological, geographical), allied to the customs and values of journalism, and underpinned by the uses of technology, significantly shape international news. This...

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts. It focuses on the local artistic sphere in the multicultural EU cities of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels,...