Global Media Studies

The technological evolution, and especially of social media, has come with tremendous advantages for the citizens: internet connections, access to ...

A comprehensive how-to guide on the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature by drawing on the best methods and...

This book brings together researchers in international communication and global media studies to revisit and advance the concept of media imperiali...

The Anthropocene in Global Media will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, media and communication studies, and the en...

The fully updated fourth edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding and shaping globalization...

DescriptionAn undisputed classic, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industr...

Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories, methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

Writing About Screen Media presents strategies for writing about a broad range of media objects - including film, television, social media, adverti...

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activitie...

DescriptionA rare contribution to global translation as a 'cross-cultural-open-concept', Arabic Translation Across Discourses provides explorations...

In one of the first English-language studies of Grupo Prisa, this book delivers a comprehensive and concise approach to the political, economic and...

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings to...

Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the ...

DescriptionTaking a truly global perspective, this textbook presents concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communicat...

DescriptionAmateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to delineate the boundary line between today's amateur media practice and the canons of pr...

DescriptionMultiplatform Media in Mexico is the first book to treat the exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet in Mexi...

Reducere. The world of digital media is constantly changing, as technologies continue to transform the way we interact and communicate on a global scale. In ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media; 50 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 536Collectio...

DescriptionShows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to sear...

Bollywood's New Woman examines Bollywood's construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illumin...

A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere, Objectively Engaged Journalism argues that media should b...

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cul...

Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely ove...

DescriptionGlobal Cultural Economy critically interrogates the role cultural and creative industries play in societies. By locating these industrie...

Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San Jos?, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change i...

The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2, 000 years ago. Based on the authors' fieldwork, interviews ...

Reducere. Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation, " Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and fa...

A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond Classical rhetoric is ...

DescriptionFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence...

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown be...

Reducere. Behind the omnipresent screens of our laptops and smartphones, a digitally networked public has quickly grown larger than the population of any nat...

Reducere. Vol.7, No.1 (13)/2014 Sommaire: ◊ Les conflits d'amenagement dans la communication environnementale. Argumentation et dissemination de contenus env...

Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth edition of the highly regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook o...

DescriptionThe only truly global collection of love poetry, bringing together the most stunning and inspiring poems from all around the world This ...

Reducere. Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, po...

DescriptionA critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the mil...

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Mapping a ...

Donald Sterling. Ray Rice. The Washington Redskins. The Miami Dolphins. NCAA Athletes. These names, among countless others, have blanketed the head...

When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on th...

This is the new edition of Linguistics: An Introduction. It is a bestselling introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language stu...

DescriptionIn 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe recent irruption of WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Snowden and other tech-savvy actors onto the global political stage raises urgent question...

"The authors have the uncommon knack of taking the complex and explaining it in a clear, compelling way. I recommend it if you want to learn the pr...

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.Toda...

DescriptionCompanies from startups to corporate giants face massive amounts of disruption today. Now more than ever, organizations need nimble and ...

China under Xi Jinping has become increasingly powerful and aggressive. What was a government largely focused on defending its own one-party system...

DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, st...

How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn LigonTrauma in all its forms--internal and e...

The League of Nations - Perspectives from the Present is an accessible and richly illustrated edited volume displaying a wide variety of cutting-ed...

Reducere. DescriptionThe statistics are eye-opening: A half-million new cases of Alzheimer's are diagnosed each year in the United States, and nearly 6 milli...

Visual art has been tied to hip-hop culture since its emergence in the 1970s. Commentary on these initial connections often emphasizes the importan...