Media Studies

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...

Over the past 45 years, award-winning sociologist David L. Altheide has illuminated how media formats and media logic affect our understanding of social issues, of how political decisions are made, and of how we relate to each other. In this masterful, summative work, Altheide describes the media sy..

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic exploration of textism use by bilingual young adults, illustrating the function of these alternative and creative linguistic forms and the affordances and constraints of text messaging as a form...

This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe...

This Companion provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. _x000D_ The 50 chapters present a range of theoretical and methodological positions, and arguments to demonstrate the dynamic, ..

_x005F_x000D_ The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media, from the long history of Asian American actors and stories that have been featured in mainstream film and television, to the birth and dev..

The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds both as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and world-builders...

The Routledge Collection to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of original essays by leading contributors from around the world...

The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established scholars to reflect on the state of fan studies and to point to new research directions...

This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving students, scholars, and media studies practitioners a cutting-edge guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersection of digital humanities, computing, and culture. ...

This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin,Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrid..

In the last decade, with the success of review sites and online commentaries and the increased accessibility of travel information online, the job of a traditional travel journalist is being challenged. Travel Journalism closely examines the impact of digital media and technology on this specialist ..