Media Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Media Teacher's Handbook

   Edited by Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison

   The Media Teacher’s Handbook is an indispensible guide for all teachers, both specialist and non-specialist, delivering Media Studies and media education in secondary schools and colleges. It is the first text to draw together the three key elements of secondary sector teaching in relation to...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
2. Mobile Interface Theory

   Embodied Space and Locative Media

   By Jason Farman

   Mobile media – from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks – are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more using our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
3. Violence and War in Culture and the Media

   Five Disciplinary Lenses

   Edited by Athina Karatzogianni

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. However, this is the first volume that...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
4. The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

   Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

   By Michael Silk

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11,...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Global Television Formats

   Understanding Television Across Borders

   Edited by Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf

   For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
6. Multimodality in Practice

   Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology

   Edited by Sigrid Norris

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates new theoretical, methodological and empirical research into new...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
7. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
8. Critical Approaches to Comics

   Theories and Methods

   Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan

   Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
9. Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet

   By Olga Goriunova

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
10. Legitimating Television

    Media Convergence and Cultural Status

    By Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine

    Legitimating Television explores the increasingly prevalent idea that TV has gotten better. This notion, circulating in the popular press, the TV industry, and media scholarship, typically references shows like The Sopranos and new technologies like DVRs and HDTV sets. Across these sites, the...

    Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge