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A Social History of the Media

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful over...

Badvertising - Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos

'Why do we allow adverts that actively promote our own destruction? Halting climate catastrophe is hard enough without ads selling things...

Boston Mass-Mediated - Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age

"In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture,...

Breaking the Social Media Prism - How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

"A eye-opening look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online--and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on soc...

Data Excess in Digital Media Research

Provoking an ethical reconsideration of what we do, or do not do, with excess data, this is a call to action for researchers and scholars...

Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001 - A World Elsewhere

"Setting out a history of cyberspace and its relationship with the discipline that was to become digital humanities, this book is an acco...

District 9: Johannesburg as Nostalgic Dystopia

Delving into District 9's iconic portrayal of Johannesburg, this book offers a distinctive vantage point on visual imaginaries of the pos...

Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma Aka the Jessica Jones Anthology

Jessica Jones made her first Marvel Comics appearance in Alias #1, November 2001, and went on to star in three ongoing series. In 2015 th...

Empire of the Elite - Condé Nast and the American publishing dream

Linguaphile - A Life of Language Love

"A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world"--

Migration and the Media - Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992-2012

The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and...

Not My Type - Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

"In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is ...

Portrayals of Pope Francis's Authority in the Digital Age - Flicks and Media Discourses, and User Perspectives

Keeping in mind Pope Francis's unprecedented influence in globally mediated religion and politics, this book delves into the digital medi...

Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan - Reading the Regency

"Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, and fan studies, Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan considers the r...

Strategic Management in the Media - Theory to Practice

Drawing from a wider range of disciplines than is often the case in media management research, this fully revised third edition of the cl...

Telling the Bees - An Interspecies Monologue

"Insects as a companion species? In Pettman's engaging and beautifully composed bestiary, writing for animals is writing with animals. Te...

The Construction of Race in Les Misérables Fanworks - Liberty, Equality, Diversity

"Through examining Tumblr fanart from the Les Misâerables fandom, whose key principles are liberty, justice, and social equality, this bo...

The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina

The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina shares a provocative story about a small Black beach comm...

Transmedia Geographies - Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contempora...

Understanding Media - Communication, Power and Social Change

An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media Our lives are more mediated than eve...

Who Wrote This? - How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing

"Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial inte...