Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World explores the relation between media and political systems in a wide range of non-Western contexts
A systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory -- as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- through an engagement with major approaches to critical media politics …
What happens to democracy and free speech if people use the Internet to create echo chambers - to listen and speak only to the like-minded? What is the democratic benefit of the Internet's unlimited choices if citizens narrowly limit the information they receive, creating ever-s…
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.
Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologi…
Provides an original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part…
For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palesti…
The Media and Political Process examines the increasingly topical subject of the political process and assesses: The nature of the relationship between mass media and the political process The impact of media-ization on existing political frameworks The implications of media-ize…
Provides insights into theories, methods and fresh subjects in communication policy research. This title includes articles from academics with international experience and provides an understanding of future trends in communication policy research
This volume evaluates scandal as a mass-mediated, globalized phenomenon. Scholars examine how institutions and personalities, ranging from politics, religion and big business to TV talkshows, sports and popular music, become converted into scandalous commodities that drive tablo…
The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony is the first full-scale application of Herman and Chomsky's classic propaganda model to the news media of a country with a system that is not outwardly similar to the United States. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman examines…