An urgent and compelling introduction that explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participator......more

An urgent and compelling introduction that explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participator......more

Digital technologies from the Internet and social media to artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping the world.......more

The Renaissance Reader: Beyoncé and Black Queer Popular Culture offers a groundbreaking exploration of Beyoncé’s acclaim......more

In the swirling sands of the Saharan desert, where the horizon blurs into an endless expanse, lies the untold story of a......more

In the early 19th century, amidst the shifting sands of empire and intrigue, a journey unfolds that bridges worlds both ......more

In The Cinema of Social Death: Blackhood At-Large, Tryon P. Woods argues that cinematic counter-narratives to society’s ......more

This book focuses on debates surrounding the body, soul, and spirit, and addresses other aspects of theological anthropo......more

In Fantasies of Singledom, Kate R. Gilchrist examines how the representation of the single woman manifests itself in con......more

In LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation, J.J. Sylvia IV analyzes the role of blogging platform LiveJournal in Russia’s......more

Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media......more

The current revival of Islam among Balkan Muslims did not simply start when war broke out in Bosnia in 1992. It is part ......more

What have been the fundamental shifts in Japanese society over the past decade? And what has remained the same? What wil......more

This book investigates the cultural significance of transformation and metamorphosis in popular media across diverse glo......more

This book explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenome......more

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Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans is a linguistic ethnography of Shami and Halebi Jews in contemporary Mexico City......more

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This book explores the integration of narrative therapy within the framework of Islāmic psychotherapy, combining modern ......more

In England and Wales, the controversial decision was made to add American XL Bully-type dogs to the prohibited breeds li......more

"Black Orpheus" and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture is the first historical study in English to examine the ......more

Proposes a powerful new theoretical approach to the concept of the digital Digital Theory argues that the digital is the......more

Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to addr......more

In the heart of 15th century Spain, where the clash of cultures paints a vivid tapestry of conflict and coexistence, unf......more

Interrogating three core assumptions made within the field of media literacy - that media literacy practices empower ind......more

Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective brings together a global group of leading and emerging scholars to expl......more

This book explores the changing portrayal of leading female characters in 21st-century security TV shows set behind the ......more

Against the backdrop of transformations which have reconfigured access to information, communication, and collective dis......more

This book investigates the ways in which gender is performed in Africa’s digital spaces. Social media and digital platfo......more

Interrogating three core assumptions made within the field of media literacy - that media literacy practices empower ind......more

Sport, Media and Discrimination provides critical, inter-disciplinary and international perspectives on how sports media......more

Understanding the African Diaspora offers a clear and engaging introduction to the global movements, histories, and cult......more

Compromise is critical to democratic policymaking, but it can be hard to find on Capitol Hill. In this era of normalized......more

This book is an in-depth exploration of ’Spec Ops. The Line’, a critically acclaimed video game that subverts its genre ......more

This book examines the Nation Media Group (NMG), one of the few African media firms that occupies a commanding position ......more

In A Feminist, Queer Adventure Line, Ashley P. Jones explores how digital games can facilitate acts of political play an......more

So many of the world’s sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step wit......more

This book investigates the ways in which peripheral news actors in digital media are transforming journalism in Zimbabwe......more

Since the publication of The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings, more African American creators hav......more

Since the publication of The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings, more African American creators hav......more

Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the h......more

"A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel les......more

"More than the story of a toy, Barbieland is the story of the 20th century." --Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto "Guts......more

The return of a classic book about games and play that illuminates the relationship between the well-played game and the......more

This timely collection featuring both empirical and theoretical essays brings together the latest reflections on piracy ......more

This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on ......more

This book draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form’s creation and ......more

A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into ......more

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? Turning to the lived everyday of media p......more

YouTube and Brokerage Dynamics in Philippine Digital Cultures offers a fresh, compelling, and nuanced account of YouTube......more

This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, "self-development. Whether prompted by th......more

This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representatio......more

This author of this book argues that while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, the......more

Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach t......more

This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes ......more

Through the lens of transmedia studies, Understanding The Simpsons traces the franchise’s trajectory, exploring how one ......more

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication-the email, blog, text message, tweet-are......more

This text offers pertinent theoretical insights and a new methodology for the study of film festivals and identifies key......more

This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radica......more

This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as h......more

Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore analyses the following categories of Muslim activists: Islamic re......more

Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the co......more

This collection features cutting edge research by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the role and signifi......more

This collection of essays considers McLuhan’s ground-breaking approach within a number of new contexts and explores the ......more

Sonic Time Machines presents a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a tem......more

This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation t......more

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex sto......more

This book explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the ear......more

This is the first book-length study to use queer theory to understand Doctor Who. It will be of interest to students and......more

Since 2003 and following the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq witnessed tremendous changes to its political, social, and economic......more

This book documents contemporary practices of pop-up and site specific cinema exhibition in the UK (with a focus on Scot......more

This book is about how in the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squa......more

Paula Albuquerque’s original research and experimental films, presented in this book, expose fictionalising elements in ......more

This book is a practical and theoretical guide for anyone interested in researching popular media, popular culture, audi......more