Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
About the Book Series
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions offer thorough, high-quality surveys and assessments of the major topics in the fields of media and cultural studies. All entries in each companion are specially commissioned and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible, and cutting-edge, these companions are the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers alike.
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The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics
2nd Edition
Edited
By Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Jessica Yarin Robinson, Tanja Bosch, Kateryna Kasianenko
June 16, 2026
This updated and expanded second edition brings together cutting-edge research across six continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of political uses of social media. In its 32 chapters, this second edition of the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics covers the ...
The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Zizi Papacharissi
January 27, 2026
A comprehensive collection that offers an overview of digital technologies and democratic practice, this Companion explores the topic of digital media and democracy from a historically rich and socio‑culturally broad perspective. Edited by one of the foremost leaders in the field, Zizi Papacharissi...
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship
1st Edition
Edited
By John Steel, Julian Petley
September 29, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic, considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it. This volume ...
The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
2nd Edition
Edited
By Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth
September 02, 2025
This second edition of the groundbreaking Routledge Companion to Mobile Media brings together newly commissioned essays and cutting-edge research alongside updated essays from the original volume to create a definitive guide to mobile communication studies. The collection, which brings together ...
The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mark J.P. Wolf, Bernard Perron
June 26, 2025
A definitive guide to contemporary video game studies, this second edition has been fully revised and updated to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies. Expertly compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, the Companion ...
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies
2nd Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, xtine burrough
March 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd Edition comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the interdisciplinary field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown...
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom
2nd Edition
Edited
By Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Scott
March 24, 2025
This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research. Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats, and incorporating a ...
The Routledge Companion to American Film History
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Paula J. Massood
February 12, 2025
Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this collection brings together original essays that explore American film history from a fresh perspective. Comprising an introduction and 34 chapters written by leading scholars from around the globe, and edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. ...
The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture
2nd Edition
Edited
By Emily West, Matthew P. McAllister
December 19, 2024
This comprehensive second edition provides an updated essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. This updated edition takes a critical look at advertising and promotion during the explosion of digital and ...
The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Mia Lindgren, Jason Loviglio
October 04, 2024
This comprehensive companion is a much-needed reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio, and podcast study, taking readers through a diverse range of essays examining the core questions and key debates surrounding radio practices, technologies, industries, policies, resources, ...
The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Annette Hill, Peter Lunt
September 27, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences captures the ways in which audiences and audience researchers are adapting to emerging social, cultural, market, technical and environmental conditions. Bringing together 40 original essays, this anthology explores how our constantly changing ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra L. Borden
August 26, 2024
Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this collection explores the complex, and often problematic, ways in which the news media shapes perceptions of poverty. Editor Sandra L. Borden and a diverse collection of scholars and journalists question exactly how the news media can reinforce (or undermine)...