Black focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological...

"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...

Aaron Rock-Singer focuses on three principal characters to tell us the story of the Islamic revival: Salafis, the Muslim Brothers, and state institutions...

Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...

De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...

Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...

Using Motorola as a case study, A Telephone for the World tracks how U.S. businesses navigated the end of the twentieth century, a moment marked by the rise of neoliberalism, the economic challenge of Japan, and the end of the Cold War.

In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...

We all have images that we find unwatchable...

Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

What does it mean to be famous on the Internet?

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

Hahner connects the Americanization campaigns at the turn of the century to contemporary political issues surrounding who counts as a "real" American and how we know...

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...

Lee and Dave discuss how the project came into being, the urgent need to teach “doing college” for the next generation of learners, and how publishing with a University Press compares and contrasts with OER publishing...

Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...

An interview with Jeff McMahan

Albrecht explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture...

Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Given its expanding multimedia presence in Asia and around the world for many years now, K-pop is a phenomenon that is hard to ignore...

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?

Peck traces the history of Fox's counter-elite brand from Murdoch to O’Reilly to Hannity...