Routledge Research Media and Communication

Routledge Research is our home for cutting-edge scholarly studies and edited collections. Ranging in scholarship across the humanities and social sciences, Routledge Research titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Our publishing program in Media and Communication research has grown rapidly in recent years, and we are pleased to offer books covering topics such as General Media Studies, Film, Television, New Media and Cyberculture, Journalism, Cultural Studies, Ancient and Modern Rhetoric, Public Relations, Popular Culture, Ecology, Food Studies, and Internet Studies.

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Felisa Salvago-Keyes
Commissioning Editor - Media

Liz Levine
Commissioning Editor - Communication

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  1. Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media

    Writing Ecology

    Edited by Sidney Dobrin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a...

    Published December 26th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

    The Reel Asian Exchange

    Edited by Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell

    Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

    This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the...

    Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge

  3. International News in the Digital Age

    East-West Perceptions of A New World Order

    Edited by Judith Clarke, Michael Bromley

    Series: Routledge Research in Journalism

    The new research presented in this volume suggests that general perceptions (cultural, psychological, geographical), allied to the customs and values of journalism, and underpinned by the uses of technology, significantly shape international news. This gives rise to a blend of the old and the new;...

    Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Creating Second Lives

    Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual

    Edited by Astrid Ensslin, Eben Muse

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’...

    Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

    By Ethan Thompson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

    In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge

  6. Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory

    Russian Literary Mnemonics

    By Mikhail Gronas

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories...

    Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge