Media Theory

This volume examines the past, present, and potential relationships between pragmatism and communication research. For scholars and students in communication study...

This book emphasizes exploring the ways in which the category of generation is mobilized to gloss sexism, racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism. It examines a range of media forms, and practices of media production, intervention, and representation. It was first publishe..

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics and explains how responses to catastrophe in both media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, health and illness, and human a..

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics and explains how responses to catastrophe in both media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, health and illness, and human a..

Addresses the connections between communication patterns & more general social conditions, with analysis of types of communication, their meanings, & associations with ethnicity & class. For scholars in comm theory, discourse, & social issues...

Addresses the connections between communication patterns & more general social conditions, with analysis of types of communication, their meanings, & associations with ethnicity & class. For scholars in comm theory, discourse, & social issues...

Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media..

This volume applies a cultural studies analysis to the practice of public relations. It is intended for students and scholars in public relations, cultural studies, and related areas...

Digital Environments signifies a shift in how we think about interactions with places and spaces, both "real" and simulated. This collection considers the possibilities of bringing ecocritical approaches into conversation with digital environments. The intent is to initiate a dialogue between two ar..

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT ..

Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife...

This volume presents original, ‘big picture’ perspectives on news framing. Each chapter in this volume will feature an individual or team of framing analysts who take a reflective look at their own empirical work. The editors' goals are to identify the influences that determine the use of different ..