Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic...

Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics...

Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...

Carayon answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other...

Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....

What does Friends mean to us now?

"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..

From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse...

Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...

Using letters written by Argentine citizens to the Perón couple between 1946 and 1955, Guy offers a nuanced approach to understand charisma...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..

When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind?

The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...

Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...

Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies...

What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?

Bernard examines the hashtag’s role in changing how we define and discuss keywords...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...

In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...