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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...
To Be Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
Designed for the critical media studies curriculum, The Media Studies Reader is an entry point into the major theories and debates that have shaped critical media studies from the 1940s to the present. Combining foundational essays with influential new writings, this collection provides a tool box...
To Be Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Media, Religion and Culture
This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of...
To Be Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the turn of the millennium, the financial health of the news industry is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and professional authority, credibility and autonomy are eroding. The outlook is bleak and it’s understandable that...
To Be Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. This reissue of what's become a classic text...
To Be Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge
What happens when stories meet mobiles? While many studies exist that look at the convergence of narrative and computing technologies, most of these studies consider digital storytelling within a desktop paradigm. Very few offer an analysis of narrative that is site-specific, context-aware,...
To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman’s volume considers how we might approach videogames as media texts to be read, experiences to be played and...
To Be Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to...
To Be Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, The Impact of Social Inequality on Media explores the reverse perspective:...
To Be Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
Based in both rigorous theoretical work and case studies of software and network usage and installation, this book explores the idea that disruption and disorder are essential to the dynamic composition of contemporary Information Society. It covers topics ranging from organizational and social...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
