Ciencias sociales / Estudios sobre los medios

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

de 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...

Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach

de 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,...

Landscapes of Capital

de 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

de 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...

Virilio and the Media

de 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

de 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...

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

de 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...

Tales from Facebook

de 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...

Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access

de Wheeler Winston Dixon

Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain -- albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can in-stantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones. Gone are...

Teaching History in the Digital Age

de 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...

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

de 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

de 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

de 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....

The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Reputation

de 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...

Presidential Candidate Images

de 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...

Global Information Society: Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

de 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...

Sport and Film

de Seán| Crosson

The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the...

Memory, Conflict and Social Media

de Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva

This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.

To this day,...

Identity and Communication: New Agendas in Communication

de Dominic L Lasorsa & America Rodriguez

Identity and Communication offers an innovative take on traditional topics of intercultural communication while promoting new ideas and progressive theories.With essays by emerging voices in identity communication,...

Teen Spirits: Music And Identity In Media Education

de Dr Chris Richards & Chris Richards

Relating to both the practice of teaching media studies and also to theoretical questions within media and cultural studies, this study examines pop music, media studies and the micro-cultural politics of adolescence....