Presents an introduction to cultural studies that guides the reader through the field's central foundations and its freshest ideas. This book grounds the reader in the foundations of cultural studies and cultural theory: language and semiology, ideology and power, mass and popular culture.

Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change. -- .

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Polite, pensive, mature, reserved... Charlie Brooker is none of these things and less. Picking up where "Screen Burn" left off, this work collects the best of Charlie Brooker's TV writing, together with spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects - tackling topics ranging from David Cameron to human hair.

What makes video games so compelling, comforting and irresistible to the human mind?

From the anti-vaccination movement to citizen blogging to uninformed attacks on GMOs, the nation has witnessed a surge in intellectual egalitarianism. While increased access to information undoubtedly brings some societal benefits, the leap to enlightenment that millions of lightly educated people believe they make after scouring WebMD or Wikipedia undermines established sources of knowledge.

Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.

Advancing the debate on television violence, this book examines the choices made by viewers who were asked to edit different examples of screen violence and discusses the factors these individuals took into consideration when deciding whether violence was acceptable or not.

This core textbook addresses structural change in the advertising industry, its legal and political environment, and the ways in which people engage with advertising.

Digital Humanities For Librarians is a one-stop resource for librarians and LIS students working in this growing area of academic librarianship. The broad overview is followed by a series of intensely practical chapters answering questions with step-by-step approaches to both the digital and the human elements of Digital Humanities librarianship.

The Internet and digital technologies have changed the world we live in and the ways we engage with one another and work and play. This is the starting point for this collection which takes analysis of the digital world to the next level exploring the frontiers of digital and creative transformations and mapping their future directions.

An approachable but critical introduction to the complex relationship between disability and the media, bringing together prominent theoretical work and research on disability internationally, with analysis and examples of a range of contemporary media issues in news, the press, broadcasting and new media.

'Alan Bryman has expanded on his well-known work on Disney and Disneyization to create a fascinating, highly readable book... This is an important book about a significant social process. And, it manages to be fun, as well!' - George Ritzer, author of McDonalidization and Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland

The definitive and hilarious New York Times bestselling expose of a new age of excess in Silicon Valley

Focusing on media regulation in democratic societies, each chapter explores how different conceptions of diversity relate to media audiences, media workforces, media outlets and media content.

This book critically considers how the DIY concept can be used to study contemporary underground music scenes examining themes such as local and trans-local connections, technological change, cultural policy, memory and heritage.