Comedia
About the Book Series
The Comedia series features new theoretical and empirical work exploring the dynamics of the arts and culture industries, and addressing critical issues in the field of contemporary popular culture: issues of production, design, marketing, and consumption. While the principle focus is contemporary, the series also offers historical, educational, and policy-oriented perspectives across a broad range of media and cultural forms, from the news media to the visual arts.
'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
1st Edition
By Sanja Vico
December 31, 2024
This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices. Drawing upon a detailed case study of Serbian Londoners, this truly interdisciplinary study ...
Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption
1st Edition
By Jonas Andersson Schwarz
February 12, 2018
It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption—especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, "piracy," and (not least) ...
Negotiating the Mediated City: Everyday Encounters with Public Screens
1st Edition
By Zlatan Krajina
October 27, 2016
This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor advertisers target audiences which ...
Teletechnologies, Place, and Community
1st Edition
By Rowan Wilken
March 27, 2014
Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts...
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
2nd Edition
Edited
By Martin Lister
October 25, 2013
This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography ...
Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Evans
July 08, 2013
The early years of the twenty-first century have seen dramatic changes within the television industry. The development of the internet and mobile phone as platforms for content directly linked to television programming has offered a challenge to the television set’s status as the sole domestic ...
Branding Television
1st Edition
By Catherine Johnson
November 22, 2011
Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable and digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone. This is the first book to offer a sustained critical ...
Relocating Television: Television in the Digital Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Jostein Gripsrud
July 27, 2010
For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies – the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something ...
Media Events in a Global Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz
November 20, 2009
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world—the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and ...
Media, Modernity and Technology: The Geography of the New
1st Edition
By David Morley
October 30, 2006
From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of ...
Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality
1st Edition
By Jonathan Gray
December 16, 2005
Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, ...
Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and Communications
1st Edition
By Shaun Moores
August 31, 2005
From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life. Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and...