Category Archives: Media Studies

Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies, Second Edition

In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young womenacross a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and nationalbackgroundsare incorporating and making sense of digital technology in their everyday lives. Contributors explore identity development, how young women … Continue reading

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European Journalism Education

This bookis the first comprehensive directory of the journalism education and training offered in thirty-three European countries. The volume, organized by country, discusses the history of journalism education and includes an analysis of all the current university programs and training … Continue reading

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Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity

Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which … Continue reading

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Viscoelastic Waves in Layered Media

This book is a rigorous, self-contained exposition of the mathematical theory for wave propagation in layered media with arbitrary amounts of intrinsic absorption. The theory, previously unpublished in book form, provides solutions for fundamental wave-propagation problems and corresponding numerical results … Continue reading

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The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism

The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism presents an authoritative, comprehensive assessment of diverse forms of news media reporting – past, present and future. Including 56 chapters, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected authors, the book provides scholars … Continue reading

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The Handbook of Spanish Language Media

With the rise of Spanish language media around the world, no reference work is available that provides an overview of the field or its emerging issues. The Handbook of Spanish Language Media is intended to fill that need. The goal … Continue reading

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The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture

A Who’s Who of Western culture, from Woody Allen to Emile Zola… Containing four hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, … Continue reading

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The Ethics of Computer Games

Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of … Continue reading

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Development Communication: Reframing the Role of the Media

In Development Communication, top media scholars explore the details of communication in areas where modernization has failed to deliver change. Offers a complete introduction to the history of development communication – the process of systematically intervening with either media or … Continue reading

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Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media (Berg New Media Series)

The cellphone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life.This communications medium has had an … Continue reading

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