Social science / Media Studies

Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture

by Mark James Russell

How Korea became a surprise entertainment and Internet powerhouse: a guide to the innovators, stars, and the emerging new media.

Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representation and Content

by Amir Hetsroni

Advertising and Reality: A Global Study of Representation and Content offers, for the first time, an extensive study of the way our life is represented in advertising. Leading scholars from different countries,...

Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere

by Douglas Kellner

For the inaugural book in our Critical Adventures in New Media series, Douglas Kellner elaborates upon his well known theory which explores how media spectacle can be used as a key to interpreting contemporary...

Unique: Telling Your Story in the Age of Brands and Social Media

by Phil Cooke

Today’s culture is more connected than any time in history, but all of this connectivity comes with a price. We live in a world that's become cluttered, distracted and disrupted by social media, with the average...

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...

Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics

by Justin S. Vaughn & Lilly J. Goren

The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton,...

Mass Media and Modern Warfare: Reporting on the Russian War on Terrorism

by Greg Simons

Greg Simons tackles the complicated yet essential role of mass media in society. Taking the Global War on Terror as a prime example, the author adopts a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the various facets...

Mapping the European Public Sphere: Institutions, Media and Civil Society

by Cristiano Bee & Emanuela Bozzini

Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book examines three relevant issues that are marking the European communicative landscape: the role of media and journalism in shaping the European debate,...

Media, Religion and Conflict

by Lee Marsden & Heather Savigny

Responding to the current political climate of increased Islamist militancy, the growing influence of the Christian Right on US foreign policy and George Bush's war on terror, Media, Religion and Conflict offers...

Political Communication in European Parliamentary Elections

by Michaela Maier & Jesper Stromback

Written by a leading team of internationally-distinguished political communication scholars, this book offers the most comprehensive account on comparative political communication research in the context of...

Culture and External Relations: Europe and Beyond

by Jozef Bátora & Monika Mokre

While the importance of culture has been on the rise in the realm of foreign affairs, its role in this field remains one of the most under-studied aspects of state policy. In this book, a range of international...

Locating Television Today

by Anna Cristina Pertierra & Graeme Turner

Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the...

Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline

by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire & Maureen Burns

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual...

Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television

by Ying Zhu

As China navigates the murky waters of a “third way” with liberal economic policies under a strict political regime, the surprising battleground for China’s future emerges in the country’s highest rated...

Weighing Anchors: When Network Newscasters Don't Know Write from Wrong

by Mervin Block

Evening News Stars Often Fail Us. Can You Spot Their Mistakes?

Longtime network newswriter Mervin Block doesn't just watch and hear evening newscasts; he listens. Block, who wrote for Walter Cronkite and other...

Print Culture: From Steam Press to Ebook

by Frances Robertson

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture...

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

by Henry Jenkins

The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular...

Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life

by Marjorie Garber

"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."

-Gore Vidal

Ties That Blind in Canadian/american Relations: The Politics of News Discourse

by Richard L. Barton

This volume explores the political impact of journalistic discourse on international -- and especially Canadian/American -- relations. In so doing, it provides a comparative analysis of American and international...