Politics & the Media

The appearance of SARS in 2002 caused a world crisis, now four years on, SARS poses no threat and has vanished from the global media. This book provides new and profound insights into this mysterious illness, from the perspectives of global geography, media studies and popular culture...

The appearance of SARS in 2002 caused a world crisis, now four years on, SARS poses no threat and has vanished from the global media. This book provides new and profound insights into this mysterious illness, from the perspectives of global geography, media studies and popular culture...

This book traces the development of the D-Notice system, which controls the media's access to government secrets, from 19th-century colonial campaigns, through two world wars, to modern operations and counter-terrorism...

Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help in answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for s..

This book examines television culture in Russia under the Putin government. It demonstrates how broadcasters have been enlisted in a national identity project to install a latter-day version of imperial pride in Russian military achievements, over which Putin’s government exerts a form of remote con..

This fascinating work presents the colourful history of parties, elections and television during one of the most critical eras in Russian history and captures a particularly significant epoch in contemporary Russian politics...

This fascinating work presents the colourful history of parties, elections and television during one of the most critical eras in Russian history and captures a particularly significant epoch in contemporary Russian politics...

The European Union is often attacked for its ‘democratic deficit’, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency, accountability and lack of popular support. This book assesses the possible formation of a communicative space that might enable and engender the creation of a transnational or..

The European Union is often attacked for its ‘democratic deficit’, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency, accountability and lack of popular support. This book assesses the possible formation of a communicative space that might enable and engender the creation of a transnational or..

_x005F_x000D_ In this book Busher explores what has made activism in the English Defence League (EDL), an anti-Muslim protest movement that has staged demonstrations across the UK since 2009, so compelling to those who have chosen to march under its banner. Based on sixteen months of overt observati..

_x005F_x000D_ In this book Busher explores what has made activism in the English Defence League (EDL), an anti-Muslim protest movement that has staged demonstrations across the UK since 2009, so compelling to those who have chosen to march under its banner. Based on sixteen months of overt observati..

In this book, Thomas Häussler examines how the media reflects and reacts to the wider context in which they are embedded...