Media & Communications Books

New and Published Books

1. Self-Mediation

   New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

   Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

   Blogs, You Tube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are but a few of the new media options available for ordinary people to express themselves in public. This intensely technological presentation of everyday lives in our public culture is today hailed as a new,...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Studying Mobile Media

   Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. The Poetry of Radio

   The Colour of Sound

   By Seán Street

   This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in sound broadcasting...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Olympics: The Basics

   By Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia

   Series: The Basics

   The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including: peace development and diplomacy...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. MediaWriting

   Print, Broadcast, and Public Relations, 4th Edition

   By W. Richard Whitaker, Janet E. Ramsey, Ronald D. Smith

   MediaWriting is an introductory, hands-on textbook for students preparing to write in the current multimedia environment. Rather than just talk about the differences among the styles of print, broadcast, and public relations, MediaWriting sythensizes and integrates them, while weaving in basic...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts

   Edited by Michael Biggs, Henrik Karlsson

   The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism

   The Past as Future

   Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political...

   Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
9. Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing

   Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse

   Edited by Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian, Carla Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   "Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

    MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

    By Ole Mjos

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge