Dana Renga offers the first comprehensive study of recent, popular Italian television...

Bloomfield positions religion as an important factor in environmentalism and focuses on how identities play a role in environmental conversation...

The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value...

How could a peasant in Shandong in the Qing dynasty come to know enough about a specific law that he felt confident enough to kill his own wife and his lover’s husband and think that he could get away with it?

What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?

Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...

How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space out of the hustle and bustle of contemporary life?

How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?

The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...

What are best-practices for alleviating stress in the workplace?

Nall shows us that a blurry boundary between science and journalism was a key feature—not a bug—of the emergence of modern astronomy....

The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...

Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...

Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...

When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there...

If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?

Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...

A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.

The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.

Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors and visionaries believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner...

We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....

"Cookery" explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production...