Social science / Media Studies

The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News,in Politics, and in Life

by Michael Blastland

The Strunk and White of statistics team up to help the average person navigate the numbers in the news

Drawing on their hugely popular BBC Radio 4 show More or Less, journalist Michael Blastland and internationally...

Developing Feature Films in Europe: A Practical Guide

by Angus Finney

The European film industry has by now lost most of its audience to American films; US productions take around eighty per cent of Europe's box-office revenues. There are many reasons for this imbalance, but one...

Eight Technologies of Otherness

by Dr Sue Golding & Sue Golding

The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides...

Teaching History in the Digital Age

by T. Mills Kelly

Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make...

The Film Handbook

by Mark de Valk & Sarah Arnold

The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today's 'digital film' productions. It reflects on how critical analysis' of...

A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media

by Jesse Drew

The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the...

The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age

by Jim Rogers

The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry. While technological innovations (primarily in the form of peer-to-peer...

Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach

by James Lull

Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline,...

Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age

by Kate Lacey

In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern...

Virilio and the Media

by John Armitage

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. Virilio’s...

Ubiquitous Photography

by Martin Hand

The rise of digital photography and imaging has transformed the landscape of visual communication and culture. Events, activities, moments, objects, and people are ‘captured' and distributed as images on an...

Tales from Facebook

by Daniel Miller

Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older...

Landscapes of Capital

by Robert Goldman & Stephen Papson

Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined landscapes of...

Making is Connecting

by David Gauntlett

In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their...

Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics

by Marcus Aldredge

Marcus Aldredge presents an ethnographic exploration of New York City's live music events where musicians signup and perform short sets. Drawing from multiple qualitative methods, Aldredge describes how open...

Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights

by Elisabeth Staksrud

A theoretically informed, yet empirically grounded study of the relationship between core democratic values and the duty to protect young people in the media-sphere, Children in the Online World offers insights...

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change

by Peter Gross

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the...

Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject

by Nandini Bhattacharya

Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code...

Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction

by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith & Susana Pajares Tosca

This expanded and revised second edition of Understanding Video Games provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of game studies.

Understanding Video Games, 2^nd Edition is an essential read...

Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture: Why Media is Not the Answer

by Karen Sternheimer

Tackling the essential social problems in America through a popular culture lens, this original book debunks the notion that the media is to blame for society's ills.