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Forthcoming Mass Media & Communication Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Media Power and Democratization in Brazil

    TV Globo and the Dilemmas of Political Accountability

    By Mauro Porto

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    In this book, Porto analyzes the role of TV Globo in the democratization of Brazil. TV Globo, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, has a dominant position in Brazil's communications landscape. It also exports telenovelas to more than 130 countries and has established joint ventures with...

    To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Amateur Media

    Social, cultural and legal perspectives

    Edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas

    The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen...

    To Be Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge

  3. North Africa’s Arab Spring

    Edited by George Joffé

    This book addresses issues surrounding the evolution of the Arab Spring in North Africa. After a general introduction and explanation of the events on a region-wide basis, it turns to examine aspects of each of the countries concerned. The role of the Muslim Brotherhood during the Nasser regime and...

    To Be Published August 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  4. Political Marketing in Retrospective and Prospective

    Edited by Christine B. Williams, Bruce I. Newman

    Political marketing coalesced as a subfield in the mid-1990s, and in 2002 the Journal of Political Marketing began publication. This anniversary collection reviews the existing theory, empirical evidence and practice of political marketing and explores emerging topics and lines of inquiry within...

    To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Textual Poachers

    Television Fans and Participatory Culture, 2nd Edition

    By Henry Jenkins

    The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. This reissue of what's become a classic text...

    To Be Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge

  6. Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies

    By Bonnie Brennen

    This book introduces the essential qualitative methods used in media research, with an emphasis on integrating theory with practice. Each method is introduced through step-by-step instruction on conducting research and interpreting research findings, alongside in-depth discussions of the historical...

    To Be Published October 10th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Panic

    By Keith Tester

    Series: Shortcuts

    Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop...

    To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

  8. The Impact of Social Inequality on Media

    Innovations in Community Structure Research

    Edited by John Pollock

    This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, The Impact of Social Inequality on Media explores the reverse perspective:...

    To Be Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  9. Online@AsiaPacific

    Networked sociality, creativity and politics in the Asia–Pacific region

    By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

    Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

    How does the online activity distort, or shape the offline world? And what are the emerging modes of community, sociality, media literacy, creativity and politics traversing online and offline spaces as Web 2.0 and social networked media burgeon? This book seeks to consider these questions by...

    To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Media Effects and Society

    2nd Edition

    By Elizabeth M. Perse, Jennifer Lambe

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Media Effects and Society provides an in-depth look at media effects and offers a theoretical foundation for understanding mass media's impact on individuals and society. Working from the assumption that media effects are common and are often underestimated, the text focuses on dominant areas of...

    To Be Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge