Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
About the Book Series
Cultural and media studies are now well-established as important academic disciplines and are inspiring new research into a wide range of pertinent issues. This series presents outstanding research in these subjects, helping to shape the direction of future inquiry.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Cultures of Participation: Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions
1st Edition
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By Birgit Eriksson, Carsten Stage, Bjarki Valtysson
September 30, 2021
This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions.Focusing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)...
Gambling in Everyday Life: Spaces, Moments and Products of Enjoyment
1st Edition
By Fiona Nicoll
September 30, 2021
The book adopts a critical cultural studies lens to explore the entanglement of government and gambling in everyday life. Its qualitative approach to gambling creates a new theoretical framework for understanding the most urgent questions raised by research and policy on gambling. In the past two ...
Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media
1st Edition
By Aspasia Stephanou
September 30, 2021
This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic.The author explores how ...
Media Cultures in Latin America: Key Concepts and New Debates
1st Edition
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By Anna Cristina Pertierra, Juan Francisco Salazar
September 30, 2021
Media Cultures in Latin America updates and expands contemporary global understandings of the region’s media and cultural research. Drawing on forty years of contributions made by Latin American cultural studies to the global media research, the book connects this history to newly developing work ...
Millennials and Media Ecology: Culture, Pedagogy, and Politics
1st Edition
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By Anthony Cristiano, Ahmet Atay
September 30, 2021
Millennials and Media Ecology explores issues pertaining to millennials and digital media ecology and studies the cultural, pedagogical, and political environments such heterogeneous generation populates. The book questions whether millennials are properly understood as a heterogeneous group, ...
Ethnic Media in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Sherry S. Yu, Matthew D. Matsaganis
September 30, 2020
Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to ...
Narratives of Place in Literature and Film
1st Edition
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By Steven Allen, Kirsten Møllegaard
September 30, 2020
Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with cultural meanings in relation to natural and ...
Unplugging Popular Culture: Reconsidering Analog Technology, Materiality, and the “Digital Native"
1st Edition
By K. Shannon Howard
September 30, 2020
Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not necessitate ...
Panic, Transnational Cultural Studies, and the Affective Contours of Power
1st Edition
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By Micol Seigel
August 14, 2020
This volume explores the panic that is a central affective register of our current international order. Fears of Somali pirates, "Gypsy" kidnappers, African warlords, Ebola, "Mexican meth," pimps, coyotes, gangs, climate refugees and more, structure the dark side of a metropolitan unconscious. ...
Ecologies of Internet Video: Beyond YouTube
1st Edition
By John Hondros
June 30, 2020
This book explores the complex, dynamic, and contested webs of relationships in which three different groups of video makers found themselves when distributing their work on the Internet. It draws upon both the Deleuzian notion of "assemblage" and Actor-Network Theory, which together provide a rich...
Advertising and Public Memory: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs
1st Edition
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By Stefan Schutt, Sam Roberts, Leanne White
December 10, 2019
This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who ...
Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television
1st Edition
By Kyra Clarke
December 10, 2019
Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools. This book argues that the representation of complicated—or "messy"—relationships in these popular cultural forms makes them potent as ...