Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalization and combining cultural theory with media industry analysis, this title offers an account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively franchised in E…
A critical and timely conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. Taking an interdisciplinary and global, intercultural approach, this book provides a clear and concise explanation of the key concepts but also goes beyond specific brands, sites…
The World Wide Web is the most well-known, celebrated, and promoted contemporary manifestation of 'cyberspace'. To date, however, most of the public discourse on the Web falls into the category of explanatory journalism - the Web has remained largely unmapped in terms of contemp…
Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and philosop…
This work argues that economic development, cultural change and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others, and consequently that certain changes a…
What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with culture? How has the study of ideology, coding, theming and representation by Cultural Studies helped us to understand Reality TV, the I…
