Social science / Media Studies

Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture

von Danielle Fuller & DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and...

Global Information Society: Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

von Mark I. Wilson, Aharon Kellerman & Kenneth E. Corey

This unique and empowering text offers a comprehensive, global perspective on the information society from a broad social science perspective. The authors, at the forefront of this dynamic field, provide an...

The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Reputation

von Craig E. Carroll

With the latest insights from the world of communication studies into the nature of corporate reputation, this new addition to Wiley-Blackwell’s series of handbooks on communication and media reflects the...

Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice

von Rebekah Modrak & Bill Anthes

To fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical.

In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique...

South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias

von Brian C. Anderson

South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias by Brian C. Anderson

Modern Jeremiahs: Contemporary Visions of American Decline

von Mark Stephen Jendrysik

This book identifies where modern Jeremiahs place the sources of national decline and their purposed solutions and its analysis also reveals the central problem faced by this form of writing: the need to balance...

Viewers Like You: How Public TV Failed the People

von Laurie Oullette

How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration...

Tricks Journalists Play: How the Truth is Massaged, Distorted, Glamorized and Glossed Over

von Dennis Barker

Dennis Barker has written a hard-hitting expose of the erosion of standards and values in the media world of newspapers, TV and radio over the past twenty years, in particular those of integrity, independence...

The A to Z of Journalism

von Ross Eaman

The Historical Dictionary of Journalism relates how journalism has evolved over the centuries. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary...

Chinese Cyber Nationalism: Evolution, Characteristics, and Implications

von Xu Wu

Chinese Cyber Nationalism offers the first comprehensive examination of the social and ideological movement that mixes Confucian cultural traditions and advanced media technology. Over the past decade, the Internet...

Presidential Candidate Images

von Kenneth L. Hacker, William L. Benoit & David Albert

This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's...

Stagecraft and Statecraft: Advance and Media Events in Political Communication

von Dan Schill

This book examines media events and advance in political communication from Kennedy through Obama by exploring the way media events are conceived and staged, the strategy and tactics advance staffers use to...

Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture

von John Downey & Sabina Mihelj

An international line up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars methodically examine the different economic, political, cultural, and transnational factors affecting developments in media systems across...

Cyberspaces and Global Affairs

von Sean S. Costigan & Jake Perry

The essays and topical cases in this book explore such issues as networks and networked thinking, information ownership, censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, humanitarian needs, terrorism, privacy and rebellion,...

The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring

von Kristen Lacefield

Analyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, inaugurated with the 1991 publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, The Scary Screen embraces a wide variety of interpretive approaches....

Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

von Paul M. Pedersen

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through,...

The Mediatization of Culture and Society

von Stig Prof Hjarvard

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful...

The UK Media Law Pocketbook

von Tim Crook

As media law becomes more complicated and some of the leading textbooks thicker and larger, this concise guide provides core information without patronizing those with existing knowledge or bamboozling those...

De-Convergence of Global Media Industries

von Dal Yong Jin

Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership...

Race and Reconciliation in America

von William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen & Enola Gay Aird

Convinced that what is needed in America is a serious, open, civil dialogue on racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice, William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen brought together an august and varied group of...