Henry Jenkins' pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal …
The Routledge companion to the cultural industries
"Alternative and Activist New Media" provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their o…
Investigates the writings of Charles Baudelaire in the wider context of the evolution of text- and image-based media, from newspapers to photography and pre-cinematic technologies in 19th-century France
From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories…
Everyday millions of people interact with the news media and yet most of them are completely unaware of the rules of the game. The results are predictable: a few benefit from the most powerful marketing force on the planet, some suffer serious damage, others don't maximize their…
Examining the political economy of TV industry, audiences of the regional media flows, perceptions of colonial-postcolonial relationships, and nationalist responses to trans-national media culture exchanges, this volume highlights the multiple connectivities and implications of …
This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective on political, technological, psychological, cultural and economic aspects of media and communications on the international scene.
This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective on political, technological, psychological, cultural and economic aspects of media and communications on the international scene.
This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective on political, technological, psychological, cultural and economic aspects of media and communications on the international scene.
This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, displace, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture. It seems that we need to forget our tradi…
