Media Studies

Algorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity. Curiously, both...

We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information-a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The human mind is quickly desensitized by information presented in the form of numbers, and yet many important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560111Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Set against the background of the fundamental issues facing the industry today, The 21st Century Journalism Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the core principles and practices essential to the modern journalist. Convergence, online, the growth of...

Hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761632600Author Eric BeecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster AustraliaWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361311253Author Ria ChopraFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt...

Social media is proliferating with influencers, but despite their prevalence and the extensive body of scholarship, there is no comprehensive book that frames the historical and contemporary phenomenon of child influencers.Drawing on original empirical...

Human history is a history of individuals - of kings and queens, of leaders and thinkers and of the many individuals who struggle, work hard and find their paths in life. It is also the history of individuation, understood as a continuous search for...

In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new forms of ludic, or playful, engagements of citizens in cultural and societal issues. From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of...

How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? Phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was...

The production, reception and discussion of fanfiction is a major aspect of contemporary global media. Thus far, however, the genre has been subject to relatively little rigorous qualitative or quantitative study-a problem that Judith M. Fathallah...

This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and...

What fresh perspectives can viewing copyright law through a humanities' looking glass bring to key notions of tomorrow's copyright law? Technological and economic concerns have long been the drivers of debate about copyright. But diverse disciplines in...

Thanks to modern technology, we are now living in an age of multiplatform fictional worlds, as television, film, the Internet, graphic novels, toys and more facilitate the creation of diverse yet compact imaginary universes, which are often recognisable...

To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value. By examining the...

This book uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail and personal interviews with the filmmaker, conducted over the course of a year, to trace the development of Agnieszka Holland’s female characters and how they have been reshaped...

This book takes an in-depth look at journalists' developing practices to expose the extreme-right networks that receive many millions of views across the dark web and mainstream platforms.The book draws on ideas about journalism's role as a digital...

K-Pop Fandom insists that K-pop fan practices and activities constitute a central productive force, shaping not only K-pop's explosive global popularity, but also K-pop's cultural impacts, politics, and horizons of possibility. Over the past three...

Nashville (1975) is a beguiling work of art. It illustrates director Robert Altman's ability to blend small, quotidian moments; large scenes of spectacle; and insights into American life that are both disturbing and sharply observed. As a snapshot of...

Interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies.Sex panics saturate contemporary discourse and politics in the United States. While such panics have a...

*** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the monopolists who dominate online - X, TikTok, Amazon,...

Dozens of communication researchers responded to the tragedies of 9/11 by immediately designing and carrying out research projects. This volume compiles the best of those research efforts. Studies include diffusion of news of the attacks, the role of the...

The far right and its fascism are on the rise. Again. The contributors to this volume bring together activist, scholarly, artist and journalist expertise on populism and propaganda, governance and media communication, far-right violence and terrorism...

In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn and one central question that needs to be answered is how to connect face-to-face conversations and deliberations in particular forums to broader discussions in the larger society. Working...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and...

While many solutions have been proposed to combat misinformation on social media, most are either ineffective, expensive, or do not work at scale. What if social media users could help mitigate the misinformation they're also responsible for...

In Total Market American, Marcel Rosa-Salas explores how US advertising reinforces racial categories for profit. Through ethnographic research at advertising agencies and key industry events, Rosa-Salas highlights advertising strategy as an influential...

This book positions King Creole in the disputed territories of 1950s youth culture. It is one of Elvis's best regarded films, but one of his least financially successful. It is a portrait of youthful alienation and juvenile delinquency made at a time...

In Total Market American, Marcel Rosa-Salas explores how US advertising reinforces racial categories for profit. Through ethnographic research at advertising agencies and key industry events, Rosa-Salas highlights advertising strategy as an influential...

How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn of the twenty-first century, Border Mediascapes takes a cinematic eye to the technologies...

This book illustrates how white nationalism emerged and maintained itself as a global movement in the years after the Second World War, contending that its international scope was made possible by a network of individuals and groups who depended on media...

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This book delves into the world of "fandom nationalism," where the lines between fan devotion and nationalistic fervor blur within the East Asian media landscape.Taking a non-Western perspective in fan studies, this book challenges conventional...

This book delves into the world of "fandom nationalism," where the lines between fan devotion and nationalistic fervor blur within the East Asian media landscape.Taking a non-Western perspective in fan studies, this book challenges conventional...

The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication is the first comprehensive reference work dedicated to the fast-evolving field of digital media and communication in China. Marking three decades since China's official connection to the...

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In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmission,...

Written by leading scholar David Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries remains the definitive text for understanding the ever-evolving world of culture, creativity, and commerce. This textbook provides a coherent and accessible analysis of cultural...

Moving beyond discussions of potential linkages between violence and video games, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games examines a broad range of issues related to the representation of crime and deviance within video games and the video game subculture...