By: Katrin Voltmer (University of Leeds)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644592, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013, Pub Date Aus Apr 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644585, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013, Pub Date Aus Apr 2013

Description: The last quarter of a century has seen an unprecedented wave of democratization around the globe. In these transitions from authoritarian rule to a m...

By: Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Athena Athanasiou
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653815, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Feb 2013, Pub Date Aus Feb 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653808, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Feb 2013, Pub Date Aus Feb 2013

Description: Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-prov...

By: Adrian Athique (University of Waikato)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662299, Pub Date US Mar 2013, Pub Date RoW Feb 2013, Pub Date Aus Feb 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662282, Pub Date US Mar 2013, Pub Date RoW Feb 2013, Pub Date Aus Feb 2013

Description: The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with ...

By: Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651965, Pub Date US Mar 2013, Pub Date RoW Jan 2013, Pub Date Aus Jan 2013
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664439, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting? This question goes to the heart of current debates about citizen journalism, one of the...

By: Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University, USA)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651927, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Dec 2012, Pub Date Aus Dec 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745676524, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord ta...

By: Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642116, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Dec 2012, Pub Date Aus Dec 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745676395, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed  in our media environment. It argues that stories where...

By: Steven Maras (University of Sydney)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647357, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647340, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012

Description: Objectivity in journalism is a key topic for debate in media, communication and journalism studies, and has been the subject of intensive historical ...

By: Bernard Stiegler (Bernard Steigler: Centre Georges-Pompidou)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648125, Pub Date US Dec 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648118, Pub Date US Dec 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012

Description: Max Weber argued that the development of capitalism would lead to the progressive rationalization and disenchantment of society: today this process i...

By: Shani Orgad (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643809, Pub Date US Oct 2012, Pub Date RoW Sep 2012, Pub Date Aus Sep 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643793, Pub Date US Oct 2012, Pub Date RoW Sep 2012, Pub Date Aus Sep 2012

Description: This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a gl...

By: Martin Hand (Queens University, Canada)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647159, Pub Date US Jul 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647142, Pub Date US Jul 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012

Description: The rise of digital photography and imaging has transformed the landscape of visual communication and culture. Events, activities, moments, objects...

By: Nick Couldry
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639215, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745639208, Pub Date US Nov 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012

Description: Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act ...

By: Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton))
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650265, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745661391, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic metho...

By: John Armitage (Northumbria University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642291, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642284, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012

Description: In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed ...

By: Robert M. Entman (George Washington University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647630, Pub Date US May 2012, Pub Date RoW Mar 2012, Pub Date Aus Mar 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647623, Pub Date US May 2012, Pub Date RoW Mar 2012, Pub Date Aus Mar 2012

Description: This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave ...

By: John B. Thompson (University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661063, Pub Date RoW Mar 2012, Pub Date Aus Mar 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647869, Pub Date US Sep 2010, Pub Date RoW Aug 2010, Pub Date Aus Aug 2010

Description: These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely ...

By: Adrian Athique (Waikato University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653334, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653327, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012

Description: The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian s...

By: Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649689, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649672, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012

Description: With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what p...

By: Charlie Beckett (London School of Economics, UK )
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745659763, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW Jan 2012, Pub Date Aus Jan 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745659756, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW Jan 2012, Pub Date Aus Jan 2012

Description: WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure, ...

By: Katie Milestone (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Anneke Meyer (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643946, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658650, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This book examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of popu...

By: Jonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Amanda D. Lotz (University of Michigan)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650999, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650982, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011

Description: Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of television studies. The book charts the estab...

By: Maxwell McCombs (University of Texas, Austin), Lance Holbert (Ohio State University), Spiro Kiousis (University of Florida) and Wayne Wanta (University of Missouri, Columbia)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645193, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645186, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011

Description: The daily news plays a major role in the continuously changing mix of thoughts, feelings and behavior that defines public opinion. The News & Pub...

By: David Buckingham (Institute of Education, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647715, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637440, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world. But should we see them as victims of manipulative marketing, or as competent p...

By: Adrienne Russell (University of Denver)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649528, Pub Date US Jul 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637730, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Journalism, what happened? In the last decade, the industry and the profession have been rocked to the core. Newspapers as consumer product are as ri...

By: Philip N. Howard (University of Washington)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652597, Pub Date US Jul 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652580, Pub Date US Jul 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and co...

By: Stylianos Papathanassopoulos (National University of Athens) and Ralph M. Negrine
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644752, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644745, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: European Media provides a clear, concise account of the structures, dynamics and realities of the changing face of media in Europe. It offers a timel...

By: Daniel Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652108, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637877, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: 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 you...

By: Robert Goldman (Lewis & Clark College) and Stephen Papson (St Lawrence University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652085, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637853, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, ...

By: Noha Mellor (Kingston University), Khalil Rinnawi (Tel Aviv University), Nabil Dajani (American University of Beirut) and Muhammad I. Ayish (University of Sharjah)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645353, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645346, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011

Description: This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with...

By: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652160, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011

Description: A surprising bestseller when it was first published in France, this little book by Pierre Bourdieu offers a brilliant critique of television and its ...

By: David Gauntlett (University of Westminster)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650029, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650012, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011

Description: In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that, through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Bot...

By: Leah Lievrouw (Sudikoff Fellow for Education and New Media, Department of Information Studies, UCLA, CA)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641843, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Jan 2011, Pub Date Aus Jan 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641836, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Jan 2011, Pub Date Aus Jan 2011

Description: Alternative and Activist New Media provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the wor...

By: Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644066, Pub Date US Jan 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644059, Pub Date US Jan 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010

Description: With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler h...

By: Paul A. Taylor (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643687, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745675213, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate ...

By: Libby Lester (Media and Communications, University of Tasmania)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644028, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644011, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010

Description: Conflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public debat...

By: Geraldine Muhlmann (Université Paris IX) and Jean Birrell
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644738, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644721, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010

Description: Journalists are commonly denounced from all sides – a shameful, deceitful trade, a profession sold out to the powerful which gives a biased and...

By: Paul Virilio (Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648644, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648637, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010

Description: With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instan...

By: Andrew Hoskins and Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638508, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745656175, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that ...

By: Jodi Dean (Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649702, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745659558, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media...

By: Zizi A. Papacharissi (Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media, Temple University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645254, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jun 2010, Pub Date Aus Jun 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645247, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jun 2010, Pub Date Aus Jun 2010

Description: Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is ...

By: Craig Allen Smith (North Carolina State University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646091, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646084, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010

Description: Presidential Campaign Communication is designed to help readers understand and appreciate more fully the ways that the people of the United States us...

By: Alexa Robertson (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649481, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745675664, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Ma...

By: Nancy Baym (Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643328, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643311, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010

Description: The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and h...

By: Angharad N. Valdivia
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640082, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Mar 2010, Pub Date Aus Mar 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640075, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Mar 2010, Pub Date Aus Mar 2010

Description: The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lo...

By: Asa Briggs (Chancellor of the Open University, formerly Provost of Worcester College, Oxford) and Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644950, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644943, Pub Date US Jan 2010, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010

Description: Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A Social History of the Media became classic textbooks, providing a ...

By: Patrik Wikström
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643908, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745655222, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The music industry is going through a period of immense change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of music in the age ...

By: Paul Virilio (The European Graduate School)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645056, Pub Date US Dec 2009, Pub Date RoW Oct 2009, Pub Date Aus Oct 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645049, Pub Date US Dec 2009, Pub Date RoW Oct 2009, Pub Date Aus Oct 2009

Description: "The world of the future will be a tighter and tighter struggle against the limits of our intelligence", announced Norbert Wiener... On top of such c...

By: Donald Matheson (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) and Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University

Description: Digital War examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of w...

By: Catherine Squires (Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity & Equality, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640365, Pub Date US Oct 2009, Pub Date RoW Sep 2009, Pub Date Aus Sep 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640341, Pub Date US Oct 2009, Pub Date RoW Sep 2009, Pub Date Aus Sep 2009

Description: From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass medi...

By: Jane L. Chapman (University of Lincoln)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640105, Pub Date US Aug 2009, Pub Date RoW Jul 2009, Pub Date Aus Jul 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640099, Pub Date US Aug 2009, Pub Date RoW Jul 2009, Pub Date Aus Jul 2009

Description: Documentary is fast changing: with the digital revolution and the enormous increase in Internet usage, the range of information and outlets for distr...

By: Sonia Livingstone
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631950, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW Jun 2009, Pub Date Aus Jun 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745631943, Pub Date US Aug 2009, Pub Date RoW Jun 2009, Pub Date Aus Jun 2009

Description: Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting f...