Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict

Paul Verschueren

This book is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photo-book, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography about war.

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Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation

Scott Fitzgerald

This book provides an introduction to the political economy of international media corporations. The author focuses on the growth of three specific media conglomerates: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and News Corporation.

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Scandalous! The Mediated Construction of Political Scandals in Four Nordic Countries

S. Allern & E. Pollack (eds.)

The purpose of this book is to spotlight the way in which political scandals in four Nordic countries have been launched, directed, dramatized and interpreted through different genres of journalism – in an interactive tug-of-war between editors and various political actors.

News institutions help to build political careers – and to tear them down. A mediated scandalization process can make the path from power to powerlessness, from a top position to exclusion, very short.

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Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel

Jack Lule

This book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, the author convincingly shows that globalization could not have occurred without media. From earliest times, humans have used media to explore, settle, and globalize their world. In our day, media have made the world progressively 'smaller' as nations and cultures come into increasing contact. Decades ago Marshall McLuhan prophesied that media technology would transform the world into a 'global village.' Slowly, fitfully, his vision is being fulfilled.

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Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia

Mirca Madianou & Daniel Miller

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.

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Irish Journalism Before Independence - More a disease than a profession

K. Rafter (ed)

They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country’s freedom.

This book is filled with the remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists. Sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism in this original and engaging volume.

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The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media

Karen Ross

The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory.

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Internet and Surveillance - The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

C. Fuchs, K. Boersma, A. Albrechtslund, M. Sandoval (eds.)

The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of 'Web 2.0', social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this context.

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