Media studies books

An in-depth exploration of the political economy of the Chinese technology company Baidu which, along with China’s...  Read More >>

This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry’s financial viability in an online world, arguing that...  Read More >>

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics...  Read More >>

Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agency, this book...  Read More >>

An emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion...  Read More >>

While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively...  Read More >>

This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the logics...  Read More >>

Resisting some of the negative connotations that repetition can attract, this book illustrates how it has been used...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the recent rise of ‘infodemics’ as forms of disinformation, misinformation and malinformation...  Read More >>

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism....  Read More >>

Bringing together critical race, queer and decolonial analytical approaches, visual analysis, and multimodal discourse...  Read More >>

Smartphones and Information on Current Events provides unprecedented insights into young people’s news consumption...  Read More >>

This book takes a close look at systems and rhetorics of silencing in sports training, using the Larry Nassar abuse...  Read More >>

""The Aesthetics of Stealth proposes a cultural analysis as well as a political theory of stealth in its various...  Read More >>

Combining empirical research with a structural analysis of Western media industries, this volume presents evidence...  Read More >>

Based on fieldwork conducted in Iran, this book discusses how it is possible for journalism to exist and function...  Read More >>

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This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from...  Read More >>

Considering the interactions between developments in open data and data journalism, Data for Journalism offers an...  Read More >>

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This book offers an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s...  Read More >>

This book provides a critical study of the power, trust and legitimacy of algorithmic gatekeepers.  Read More >>

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Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate explores the process by which digital journalists manage the coverage...  Read More >>

Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their...  Read More >>