Media Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Jean Baudrillard

   Fatal Theories

   Edited by David B. Clarke, Marcus Doel, William Merrin, Richard G. Smith

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard’s sophisticated theoretical analyses...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. Crafting Society

   Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory

   By Donald G. Ellis

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The study of communication, language, and discourse is at once simple, elegant, and complex. Each of these areas is informed by "micro" subjective experiences of individuals and the "macro" processes of a culture. Communication itself is thoroughly modern yet it seeks anchorage in the traditions of...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
3. Migration and New Media

   Transnational Families and Polymedia

   By Mirca Madianou, Daniel Miller

   How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Architecture of Information

   Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information

   By Martyn Dade-Robertson

   This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation....

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
5. Audience Studies

   A Japanese Perspective

   By Toshie Takahashi

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity in an accessible and lively fashion. Based on an ethnography of Japanese engagement with media and ICT in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Takahashi offers a...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. After the Media

   Culture and Identity in the 21st Century

   By Peter Bennett, Alex Kendall, Julian McDougall

   This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies, particularly within schools, has until recently been concerned with mass media and the effects of...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Radicalisation and Media

   Connectivity and Terrorism in the New Media Ecology

   By Andrew Hoskins, Akil Awan, Ben O'Loughlin

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there appears to be emerging threats to...

   Published January 31st 2011 by Routledge
8. Media Perspectives for the 21st Century

   Edited by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos

   Series: Communication and Society

   Media Perspectives for the 21st Century brings together key international scholars to explore concepts, topics and issues concerning the communication environment in contemporary democratic societies. It combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to provide an interdisciplinary and truly...

   Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge
9. Relocating Television

   Television in the Digital Context

   Edited by Jostein Gripsrud

   Series: Comedia

   For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies – the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something...

   Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
10. Global Media Ecologies

    Networked Production in Film and Television

    By Doris Baltruschat

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    In this study, Baltruschat calls attention to dramatic changes in worldwide media production. Her work provides new insights into industry re-organization, digital media, and audience interactivity as pivotal relationships are redrawn along the entire value chain of production, distribution, and...

    Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge