Media Studies and Journalism (18)

• Media Studies and Journalism

Characters in Film and Other Media: Theory, Analysis, Interpretation

• Jens Eder
• Jens Eder
• Stephen Lowry

Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters across four dimensions: as represented beings with physical, psychological, and social characteristics; as artefacts with aesthetic structures; as meaningful symbols; and as symptoms of socio-cultural origins and effects. Integrating insights from film, media, and literary studies as well as philosophy, psychology and sociology, the book offers a broad range of approaches for understanding characters and the emotional responses they evoke.

• Media Studies and Journalism
• Politics and Sociology

Imagery of Hate Online

• Matthias J. Becker
• Marcus Scheiber
• Uffa Jensen

This edited volume explores the evolving role of visual and multimodal expressions in spreading hate ideologies within digital communication. In digital spaces, hate speech is increasingly conveyed through memes, images, and videos, blending textual and pictorial elements to perpetuate harmful stereotypes and other exclusionary narratives. While historical perspectives on hate imagery are well-documented, this collection emphasises the pressing need for contemporary analysis of visual and multimodal communication in digital environments.

• Literature
• Media Studies and Journalism
• Philosophy

Thinking Blue / Writing Red: Marxism and the (Post)Human

• Stephen Tumino

Thinking Blue/Writing Red interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the pandemic (‘Covid’ and ‘Trump Speak’) to high theory (Melville's narratives) and popular culture (Beyoncé's ‘Formation’ and Super Bowl performance, Twin Peaks , metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films).

• Media Studies and Journalism
• Politics and Sociology

Antisemitism in Online Communication: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Hate Speech in the Twenty-First Century

• Matthias J. Becker
• Laura Ascone
• Karolina Placzynta
• Chloé Vincent

Drawing from disciplines such as corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, semiotics, history, and philosophy, this edited collection examines over 100,000 user comments from three language communities. Contributors explore various facets of online antisemitism, including its intersectionality with misogyny and its dissemination through memes and social networks. Through case studies, they examine the reproduction, support, and rejection of antisemitic tropes, alongside quantitative assessments of comment structures in online discussions. Additionally, the volume delves into the capabilities of content moderation tools and deep-learning models for automated hate speech detection. This multidisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive understanding of contemporary antisemitism in digital spaces, recognising the importance of addressing its insidious spread from multiple angles.

• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism
• Philosophy
• Politics and Sociology
• Science

Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction

• Ibo van de Poel
• Lily Eva Frank
• Julia Hermann
• Jeroen Hopster
• Dominic Lenzi
• Sven Nyholm
• Behnam Taebi
• Elena Ziliotti

Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations and our relation to nature? This book shows how technologies can be socially and conceptually disruptive and investigates how to come to terms with this disruptive potential.

• Media Studies and Journalism
• Philosophy
• Politics and Sociology

Engaging with Everyday Sounds

• Marcel Cobussen

'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, emotions, and imagination. Marcel Cobussen intertwines sonic studies with philosophy, sound art, sociology and more to create an impressively lucid and innovative guide to sonic materialism, calling for a re-sensitization to our acoustic environment and arguing that everyday sounds have (micro)political, social, and ethical impact to which we should attend.

• Biography
• History
• Media Studies and Journalism

The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1: 1865–1887

• Andrew Hobbs

Anthony Hewitson was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press, provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1862 and 1912, lift the veil of anonymity hiding the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian newspapers. Andrew Hobbs’s introduction and footnotes provide background and analysis of these valuable documents. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers.

• Film and Photography
• Media Studies and Journalism
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Documentary Making for Digital Humanists

• Darren R. Reid
• Brett Sanders

Documentary Making for Digital Humanists sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape.

• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism
• Politics and Sociology

Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach

• Richard S. Lewis

This book addresses these issues by providing a transdisciplinary method that allows for both practical and theoretical analyses of media investigations. Informed by postphenomenology, media ecology, philosophical posthumanism, and complexity theory the author proposes both a framework and a pragmatic instrument for understanding the multiplicity of relations that all contribute to how we affect—and are affected by—our relations with media technology.

• Education
• Media Studies and Journalism

Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities

• Virginia Kuhn
• Anke Finger

Shaping the Digital Dissertation aims to provide insights, precedents and best practices to graduate students, doctoral advisors, institutional agents, and dissertation committees. This edited collection will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone interested in the future of doctoral studies.

• Media Studies and Journalism

Arab Media Systems

• Carola Richter
• Claudia Kozman

This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country’s media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, 'Arab Media Systems' brings together contributions from experts in the field of media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to provide valuable insights into the heterogeneity of this region’s media systems.

• European Studies
• European Studies: German Studies
• Film and Photography
• History
• Media Studies and Journalism

Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda

• Christopher Webster

This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich.

• Media Studies and Journalism

The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations

• Michael Serwornoo

The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press is a comprehensive and highly analytical study of the impact of foreign news organisations on the creation of an image of Africa in its own press. Identifying a problematic focus on the Western media in previous studies of the African media image, Serwornoo uses the Ghanaian press as a case study to explore the effects of centuries of Afro-pessimistic discourse in the foreign press on the continent’s self-description.

• Media Studies and Journalism
• Politics and Sociology

Introducing Vigilant Audiences

• Daniel Trottier
• Rashid Gabdulhakov
• Qian Huang

This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life. Longstanding forms of moral scrutiny and justice seeking are disseminated through our contemporary media landscape, and researchers are increasingly recognising the significance of societal impacts effected by digital media.

• Environmental Studies
• Media Studies and Journalism

Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change

• Michael Brüggemann
• Simone Rödder

Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.

• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Media Studies and Journalism

Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis

• Chris Rowell

How does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academics and those working in professional services to examine these questions and more. The diverse and expert contributors analyse the many ways social media can be used to enhance teaching and learning, research, professional practice, leadership, networking and career development. The impact of social media is evaluated critically, with an eye both to the benefits and the problems of using these new forms of digital communication.

• European Studies
• European Studies: English and Irish Studies
• History
• Media Studies and Journalism

A Fleet Street In Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900

• Andrew Hobbs

'A Fleet Street in Every Town' positions the local paper at the centre of debates on Victorian newspapers, periodicals, reading and publishing. It reorientates our view of the Victorian press away from metropolitan high culture and parliamentary politics, and towards the places where most people lived, loved and read. This is an essential book for anybody interested in nineteenth-century print culture, journalism and reading.

• Environmental Studies
• Media Studies and Journalism

The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape

• Heike Graf

The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of "the environment".