Media Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Library Editions: Television

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Television

   Reissuing works originally published between 1974 and 1999, Routledge Library Editions: Television offers a selection of scholarship covering the exploration of TV. Volumes vary from general texts on the advent, influence or future of broadcasting to specific studies of television and parliament,...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Videology and Utopia

   Explorations in a New Medium

   By Alfred Willener, Guy Milliard, Alex Ganty

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Television

   When this book was originally published in 1976, video represented a new instrument, a new medium, and a new field of research with largely unrealized potential. The video-taperecorder was an addition to the technology of mass communications, a handy gadget for recording synchronized images and...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
3. Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics

   The Challenge of Being Seamlessly Mobile

   Edited by Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   As an example of convergence, the mobile phone—especially in the form of smartphone—is now ushering in new promises of seamlessness between engagement with technology and everyday common experiences. This seamlessness is not only about how one transitions between the worlds of the device and the...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Museum Communication and Social Media

   The Connected Museum

   By Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses. The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation of familiar opportunities and obstacles in...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Emerging Research Library

   Edited by Sul H. Lee

   The chapters included in this book were developed from papers presented at "The Emerging Research Library: Our Role in the Digital Future" Conference sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries. These chapters explore the emergence of a new form of academic library and the challenging issues...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. De-Westernizing Communication Research

   Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks

   Edited by Georgette Wang

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Creativity and Advertising

   Affect, Events and Process

   By Andrew McStay

   Creativity and Advertising develops novel ways to theorise advertising and creativity. Arguing that combinatory accounts of advertising based on representation, textualism and reductionism are of limited value, Andrew McStay suggests that advertising and creativity are better recognised in terms of...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

   Edited by Matthew P. McAllister, Emily West

   The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. The book contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives considers the historical...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Reading Beyond the Book

   The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture

   By Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Interrogating Trauma

    Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

    Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

    Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge