R&L Academic - Media & Communication Studies 2022

Media & Communication Studies Academic 2022

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Advertising

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Communication theory

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COVID-19

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Digital culture

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Ethnicity and race

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Gender and sexuality

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Music

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News media & journalism

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Politics & IR

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Popular media

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Poverty and precarity

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Semantics

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Sexual assault

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Social Media

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Sports

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Video Games

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Recent backlist

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Worldwide Distribution

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A DV E R TISIN G

Holy Hype

A Guide to Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News Susan H. Sarapin, Pamela L. Morris

Lexington Books 9781793629340 Pub Date: 18/01/2022 £77.00 UK/€98.00 EU Hardcover 258 Pages 52 Illustrations including: - 52 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.

23.7 cm H | 16.3 cm W | 2 cm T | 503.5 g Wt

Summary

Holy Hype: Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News defines and explores the intersection of the sacred—religious symbols, themes, and rhetoric —within the profane realm of advertising and promotion. Susan H. Sarapin and Pamela L. Morris trace the historical overlap of consumer and religious ideologies in society, offering detailed examples of its use throughout history through analyses of over a hundred collected advertisements, from monks selling copiers, to billboard messages from God, to angels and the worship of vodka. Throughout the book, the authors continually evaluate if and when the technique of ‘holy hype’ is effective through its use of recognizable sacred symbols that capture audiences’ attentions and inspire both positive and negative emotions. Scholars of communication, media studies, religion, advertising, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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This Bridge We Call Communication:

Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts

Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis

Maureen C. Minielli, Marta N. Lukacovic, Sergei A. Samoilenko, Michael R. Finch, Deborrah Uecker, Olga Leontovich, Ekaterina Bogomoletc, Dmitrii Malkov, Olga Pichugina, Natalia Matveeva, Lilia Akhmerova

Alexandrina Agloro, Edmundo M. Aguilar, Luis M. Andrade, Xamuel Bañales, Sara Baugh-Harris, Diana I. Bowen, Bernadette Marie Calafell, Nivea Castaneda, Tara L. Conley, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Stephanie L. Gomez 9781498558808 Lexington Books Pub Date: 06/07/2021 £36.00 GBP/€44.95 EUR 406 pages • Paperback

This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different me...

While the broader field of communication studies is gaining more global prominence, this is an era when the underrepresented voices are fortunately becoming more recognized. Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts illustrates how Eurasia and Central and Eastern Europe—the pos...

9781793641236 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/02/2022 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 302 pages • Hardcover

The Cultural Communication of Emigration in Bulgaria

When Communication Became a Discipline William F. Eadie

Nadezhda Sotirova

9781793604736 Lexington Books Pub Date: 11/11/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 164 pages • Hardcover

In The cultural Communication of Emigration in Bulgaria, Nadezhda Sotirova weaves disparate threads of Balkanism, complaining practices, and the myth of the “Bulgarian Situation” in order to illuminate local discourses on emigration in Bulgaria. Utilizing ethnography of communication and cultural di...

9781498572156 Lexington Books Pub Date: 05/11/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 192 pages • Hardcover

Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free

David H. Kahl, Jr., Ahmet Atay, Anjuli Joshi Brekke, Leda Cooks, K. Megan Hopper, John Huxford, Lore/tta LeMaster, Rob Razzante, Simon Rousset

Spoma Jovanovic, Cerri A. Banks, Michael C. Behrent, Gabriel A. Cruz, David Errera, Therese Gardner, Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Marcus Hyde, Thomas F. Jackson, Gary Kenton

9781793630933 Lexington Books Pub Date: 06/08/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 290 pages • Hardcover

9781793627186 Lexington Books Pub Date: 06/12/2021 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 228 pages • Hardcover

Pedagogies of Post-Truth explores the national and international political developments in what has been called a post-truth society; specifically, in which conservative groups target media outlets claiming fabrication of news and that the veracity of evidence-based reporting should be questioned. T...

Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must

Radical Communications: Rebellious

Wallis C. Baxter III

Michael Tsangaris

In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley’s poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary...

Radical Communications explores unauthorized messages we see in the cities we live in and their impact on the construction of social reality. Michael Tsangaris treats the city as a text and examines the political slogans, graffiti, and street art of Athens as complex visual signs in an alternative c...

Be Born Again

9781793641205 Lexington Books Pub Date: 31/01/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 162 pages • Hardcover

When Communication Became a Discipline argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1964 and 1982. They changed the names of their scholarly societies and journals and revised their academic curricula. Five “strands” of scholarship became and remain cent...

Pedagogies of Post-Truth

Speech and Civic Engagement

Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free Speech and Civic Engagement addresses how people express themselves and their differences, in ways that amplify the many voices central to the mission of democracy. This book investigates in what ways and in what discursive forms people interrupt the statu...

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Expressions on Urban Walls

9781793608567 Lexington Books Pub Date: 08/11/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 182 pages • Hardcover

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C OVI D-19 Lexington Books

Communication in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Summary: Communication in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic vastly changed the way in which the world interacts. This book is a collection of unique research, where each chapter is centered around a different topic related to changes in communication as a byproduct...

Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19

Summary: Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19 provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on college teaching and learning and on students, both collectively and individually.

Contributors argue that the pandemic forced a higher education recko...

Theresa MacNeil-Kelly, Pamela Dykes, Jobia Keys, Katherine Loh, Cara T. Mackie 9781793639912, 1793639914 Pub Date: 11/3/21 £66.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 104 pages / 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.

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Michael G. Strawser, Laura Alberti, Ben Alfonsin, Kathryn E. Anthony, Jessica Beckham, Melissa Boehm, Samuel Boerboom, Luke A. Dye, Kristen LeBlanc Farris, Tanya Gardner, Ali Gattoni 9781793649782, 1793649782 Pub Date: 3/15/22 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 228 pages / 9 Illustrations including: - 2 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 3 Charts; - 4 Tables.

Hardcover Series: Generational Differences in Higher Education and the Workplace: Leading and Teaching Millennials and Generation Z

Personal and Administrative Perspectives from the Communication Discipline during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lexington Books

Lexington Books

Summary: This book addresses questions about the major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human communication and the ways in which the communication discipline has been Jim A. Kuypers, Carl M. Cates, Scott Christen, Deanna P. Dannels, Ann L. Darling, Ashley P. Duggan, Michelle Epstein Garland, Elizabeth M. Glowacki, Sandra S. Harper, impacted by and has responded to the conditions of the pandemic.

Contributors examine both the personal and the university Mark Hickson, III, Hannah E. Jones admini...

9781793643636, 1793643636 Pub Date: 3/15/22 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 202 pages / 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations.

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Post-Pandemic Pedagogy : A Paradigm Shift

Joseph M. Valenzano, III, Lindsey Anderson, Lori Blewett, Linda Carozza, Kate Challis, Maureen Ebben, Ali Garib, Steve Gennaro, Cyndi Grobmeier, Katherine Hampsten, Ashley A. Hanna Edwards 9781793652218, 179365221X Pub Date: 11/1/21 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 294 pages / 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Tables.

Hardcover

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Lexington Books

Summary: Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered teaching and learning for faculty and students alike. The increased prevalence of video-conferencing software for conducting classes fundamentally changed the way in which we teach and seemingly u...

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Lexington Books Communicating with Memes : Consequences in Post-truth Civilization Grant Kien 9781498551359 Pub Date: 7/6/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 250 pages / 21 Illustrations including: - 20 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables.

Paperback Series: Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture Territory: 21.8 cm H | 15.4 cm W | 1.7 cm T | 440 g Wt

Summary: Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, the causes of these consequences, and what action—if any—should be taken in response.

Communicating with memes across social media networks has become a commonplace activity in today’s world, despite the fact that just years earlier, this mode of communication was a rarity. The rapid adoption of this new mode of communication through ubiquitous social media and devic...

Contributor Bio: Grant Kien is a professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, East Bay.

Lexington Books Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness : Dissolving the Boundary between Digital and Physical Life B. C. Bouchillon 9781793622136 Pub Date: 1/24/22 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 140 pages / 38 Illustrations including: - 17 Charts; - 21 Tables.

Hardcover 23 cm H | 16 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 403.7 g Wt

Summary: As the U.S. population has increasingly withdrawn into itself, Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness considers the importance of communication technology for helping citizens become socially proficient in ways that transcend digital and physical environments. Experiencing computer-based social platforms as realistic and intimate allows networked social competence to add to interpersonal competence, Bouchillon argues. Trust is shown to benefit, and during the COVID-19 pande...

Contributor Bio: Brandon Bouchillon is assistant professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas.

Lexington Books Consumer Management in the Internet Age : How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace Joshua Sperber 9781498592239 Pub Date: 7/2/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 154 pages Paperback 22 cm H | 15.3 cm W | 1.1 cm T | 222.3 g Wt

Summary: Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly —discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews. Based on case studies of the websites Yelp and Rate My Professors (RMP), Joshua Sperber analyzes how online reviewing, a popular contemporary hobby, tells us much about the collapse of the barriers separating work and le...

Contributor Bio: Joshua Sperber is assistant professor of political science and history at Averett University.

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D I G I TA L C U LTURE

The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture:

The Dialectic of Digital Culture

Aditi Paul

David Arditi, Jennifer Miller, Brian Connor, Lisa Daily, Long Doan, Robert Gehl, Nancy Hanrahan, Ariella Horwitz, Douglas Kellner, Timothy Luke

The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture provides a holistic picture of the current hookup culture in American college campuses. Based on the findings from a nationally representative survey, Aditi Paul demonstrates that hookups initiated through dating apps are fundamentally different from hookups tha...

This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality, and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of priv...

Dating Apps, Hookup Scripts, and Sexual Outcomes

9781793633606 Lexington Books Pub Date: 24/01/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 152 pages • Hardcover

9781498589888 Lexington Books Pub Date: 18/10/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 260 pages • Paperback

Electronic Community-Oriented Policing:

Fractured Fandoms: Contentious

Communication in Fan Communities

Theories, Contemporary Efforts, and Future Directions

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

Xiaochen Hu, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Gary Cordner

9781793607867 Lexington Books Pub Date: 21/12/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 250 pages • Paperback

Hu and Lovrich introduce the "electronic communityoriented policing (E-COP)," concept to explore how social media can impact police strategies on improving and maintaining police-public relation. Using empirical evidence and theoretical foundations, this book demonstrates the importance of this tim...

9781498552585 Lexington Books Pub Date: 19/07/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 286 pages • Paperback

Hate Speech against Women Online:

Silence, Civility, and Sanity: Hope for Humanity

Louise Richardson-Self

Stephanie Bennett

Why are women so frequently targeted with hate speech online and what can we do about it? Psychological explanations for the problem of woman-hating overlook important features of our social world that encourage latent feelings of hostility toward women, even despite our consciously-held ideals of e...

Silence, Civility, and Sanity addresses the reclamation of civil communication and healthy public conversation at a time when people are very divided. Throughout this book, Stephanie Bennett focuses on the importance of silence to temper speech and embrace the art of listening to foster a more posit...

in a Digital Age

Concepts and Countermeasures

9781538147795 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 01/10/2021 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 218 pages • Hardcover

9781793639882 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/03/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 214 pages • Hardcover

Technologies of Refuge and Displacement:

Understanding Esports: An Introduction to the

Linda Leung

Ryan Rogers, Kelly L. Adams, Andrew C. Billings, Nick Bowman, Jessalyn Coble, Gregory A. Cranmer, Gabriella Devia-Allen, Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers, Catherine Einstein, Lee K. Farquhar, John George, IV

Global Phenomenon

Rethinking Digital Divides

9781498500043 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/07/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 154 pages • Paperback

Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic system. At times, however, being a fan becomes problematic, especially when clashes with other fans occur ...

Technologies of Refuge and Displacement: Rethinking Digital Divides aims to theoretically and practically understand technology access and use from the perspective of those on the “wrong” side of the digital divide. Specifically, it examines refugees as a group that has received scant attention as t...

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9781498589826 Lexington Books Pub Date: 21/10/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 250 pages • Paperback

Understanding Esports: An Introduction to the Global Phenomenon places professional Esports, a rapidly growing industry, in both the cultural and athletic landscape. This book explores how the rise of professional gaming has shaped—and been shaped by—media trends, interpersonal communication, and wh...

ET H N IC IT Y & R AC E

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race,

Intersectional Media: Representations of

Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi, Shadee Abdi, Bernadette Marie Calafell, Ashley Noel Mack, Haneen Alghabra, Shahd Alshammari, Sara Baugh-Harris, Chris Brown, Santhosh Chandrashekar

Jane Campbell, Theresa Carilli, Kimiko Akita, Maha Bashri, Layla Cameron, Giovanna Del Negro, Amanda Hill, Michael Johnson, Jr., Robert Kellerman

Marginalized Identities

Intercultural Communication, and Politics

9781498588249 Lexington Books Pub Date: 21/12/2021 £33.00 GBP/€41.95 EUR 340 pages • Paperback

9781793612359 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/02/2022 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 128 pages • Hardcover

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by explor...

9781793643513 Lexington Books Pub Date: 29/07/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 156 pages • Hardcover

Media, Myth, and Millennials: Critical

Jacinta Mwende Maweu

Loren Saxton Coleman, Christopher Campbell, Robert D. Byrd, Jr., Alison Yeh Cheung, Marcus J. Coleman, Ashley Cordes, Jayne Cubbage, Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante, Natalie Hopkinson

Perspectives on Race and Culture

9781498577373 Lexington Books Pub Date: 18/10/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 282 pages • Paperback

The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina

The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina shares a provocative story about a small Black beach community on North Topsail Island, North Carolina. Hope Jackson argues that stories like these not only offer a rich, untold perspective about Black lives, but also sh...

Media, Myth, and Millennials: Critical Perspectives on Race and Culture debunks the post-racial myth among millennial media consumers and producers. This theoretically diverse collection of contributors highlights the complexity at the intersections of media, race, gender, sexuality, class and place...

Teaching Race: Struggles, Strategies, and Scholarship for the Mass Communication Classroom

Hope W. Jackson

9781793601841 Lexington Books Pub Date: 16/11/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 162 pages • Hardcover

Intersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities analyzes media depictions of a variety of intersecting identities. Through a study examining how components of identity such as race, class, ethnicity, age, ability, class, and sexuality mesh and form a unique worldview, contributors t...

Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya

Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya critically examines the interplay between the media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya. Jacinta Mwende Maweu analyzes the place of ethnicity in Kenyan politics and the key drivers of electoral conflicts, as well as how ethnicity influences...

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George Daniels, Robin Blom, The AEJMC Minorities and Communication Division

9781538154564 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 31/10/2021 £27.00 GBP/€33.95 EUR Paperback

When it comes to teaching about race, journalism and mass communication faculty from various backgrounds must deliver instruction that acknowledges the challenges surrounding the topic while facilitating the learning of undergraduate and graduate students. Race should be a topic infused across the c...

Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism: Implications for Education and Work

Victoria Showunmi, Carol Tomlin

9781498567091 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 204 pages • Hardcover

Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Everyday Racism adopts a fresh approach to the study of racism. Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin identify the prevalence of sophisticated racism.

They explore sophisticated and everyday racism and how it manifests itself in society...

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G E N D E R & SEXU ALITY

The Battle for Birth Control

Exploring the Lasting Consequences of the Movement's Early Rhetoric Jessica L. Furgerson

Lexington Books 9781793643247 Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £92.00 UK/€112.00 EU Hardcover 366 Pages 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W

Summary

The Battle for Birth Control delves into the complex rhetorical history of the American birth control movement in its formative years. In just four decades, advocates, under the strategic guidance of Margaret Sanger, transitioned the fight for contraception from fringe radical movement to a respectable mainstream cause endorsed by powerful professionals and politicians alike. Eschewing their early ideological commitments to obtain widespread acceptance, birth controllers adopted a strategy of political accommodation characterized by deferential rhetoric and careful posturing. This strategy secured significant victories for the movement but at what cost? Informed by a deep commitment to reproductive justice, The Battle for Birth Control traces the duplicity of the movement’s early rhetoric and argues that their accommodationist strategy yielded increased contraceptive access solely because of their willingness to endorse the neoliberal regime of reproductive control largely responsible ...

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G EN D ER & S EX UA L IT Y Coming Out Queer Online : Identity, Affect, and the Digital Closet Patrick M. Johnson 9781793613486, 1793613486 Pub Date: 12/20/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 160 pages / 4 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Tables.

Paperback Series: Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias : Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries

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Lexington Books

Summary: The Digital Closet: LGBT*Q Identities and Affective Politics in a Social Media Age discusses how LGBT*Q individuals occupy a precarious space within society as a marginalized community in the United States. They are afforded representation in some venues yet are often invisible. Through soc...

Lexington Books

Summary: Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, Eric Ping Hung Li, Russell Belk, Shelley W. Chan, the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships Su Young Choi, Jonathan Deschenes, Dandan Fang, Guojun (Sawyer) He, Nathan with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes Hopson, Matt M. Husain their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identi...

9781793623546, 1793623546 Pub Date: 10/12/21 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 310 pages / 18 Illustrations including: - 5 Black & White Illustrations; - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Tables.

Hardcover

Lexington Books

Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing : Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History

Summary: Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and earl...

Genderblindness in American Society : The Rhetoric of a System of Social Control of Women

Summary: Genderblindness in American Society: The Rhetoric of a System of Social Control of Women rhetorically analyzes discourses of the current genderblind system of social control that seeks to render gender as irrelevant in public life. As an ideology, genderblindness shapes women’s experiences ...

Michelle Medeiros 9781498579773, 1498579779 Pub Date: 3/15/22 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 224 pages / 11 Illustrations including: 11 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.

Paperback Series: Latin American Gender and Sexualities

Lucy J. Miller 9781498567947, 1498567940 Pub Date: 7/2/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 190 pages Paperback

Lexington Books

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Here Comes the Flood : Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave

Summary: This collection breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, specifically examining issues of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in a variety of cultural products including K-pop, K-drama, and cover dancing through the lens of how “Koreanness” can be defined. A diver...

Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse

Summary: Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse examines the mediated dialogue of #WhiteWednesdays, specifically between U.S. mainstream news narratives and Iranian activists on Twitter. These narratives highlight how hierarchies of visibility in both news and social media disc...

Latina/o/x Communication Studies : Theories, Methods, and Practice

Summary: Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theories, Methods, and Practice spotlights contemporary Latina/o/x Communication Studies research in various theoretical, methodological, and academic contexts. Leandra H. Hernández, Diana I. Bowen, Sara De Los Santos Upton, and Amanda R. Martinez have asse...

Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump

Summary: Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump argues that misogyny has increased in the United States under President Trump and that although women’s experiences under misogyny are by no means universal, patriarchal social and institutional systems facilitate gender-based hostility. Systemic misog...

Marcy L. Tanter, Moisés Park, Tiago Canário, Snigdha Gupta, Seunghee Ha, Michael W. Hurt, Min Suk Kim, Peter Moody, Michael Ormsbee, Jahyon Park 9781793636300, 1793636303 Pub Date: 3/15/22 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 270 pages / 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.

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Sara Shaban 9781793647269, 1793647267 Pub Date: 1/24/22 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 146 pages / 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Tables.

Hardcover

Diana I. Bowen, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Robert Gutierrez-Perez, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Michelle A. Holling, Dr. Michael Lechuga, Diana Leon-Boys, Amanda R. Martinez, Shantel Martinez, Rebecca Mercado Jones, Yvonne Montoya 9781498558778, 1498558771 Pub Date: 10/21/21 £36.00 GBP/€44.95 EUR 434 pages / 8 Illustrations including: - 6 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Tables.

Paperback

Maria B. Marron, Ellen Ahlness, Dorothy Bland, Katie Blevins, Leah Hatton Blumenfeld, Alison Fisher Bodkin, James Carviou, Pamela J. Creedon, Jessica Loyet Gracey, Jennifer A. Jackson, Hoon J. Lee 9781793606204, 179360620X Pub Date: 10/21/21 £36.00 GBP/€44.95 EUR 406 pages / 10 Illustrations including: - 5 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 5 Tables.

Paperback Series: Communicating Gender

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Lexington Books

G EN D ER & S EX UA L IT Y Networked Feminisms : Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices

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Lexington Books

Summary: The collection of essays outlines how feminists employ a variety of online platforms, practices, and tools to create Shana MacDonald, Brianna I. Wiens, Michelle MacArthur, Milena Radzikowska, Tara L. spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual, consumerist, white feminist Conley, Melissa Brown, Adan Jerreat-Poole, Marisa Elena Duarte, Ace J. Eckstein, empowerment in favor of collective, tangible ...

Radhika Gajjala 9781793613790, 1793613796 Pub Date: 11/16/21 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 262 pages / 9 Illustrations including: - 7 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Tables.

Hardcover

Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker : An Analysis of Media Representations Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith 9781538165140, 1538165147 Pub Date: 3/15/22 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 212 pages Hardcover

Representing Kink : Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary: Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general public draws its understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, this book considers an emerging d...

Lexington Books

Summary: Representing Kink raises awareness about non-normative texts and non-normative erotic practices and desires. It defines “kink” broadly, encompassing a range of Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, Bobby Derie, Antonnet Johnson, Jane M. Kubiesa, Whitney S. May, Fe Lorraine Reyes, Jonathan A. Rose, Sean Shannon, Brian Watson, “inappropriate” texts and understanding it in frequent reference to non-normative erotic fantasies and experiences. Kink is treated...

Josh Zimmerman 9781498590877, 149859087X Pub Date: 7/15/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 194 pages Paperback

Women of the Wild : Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories

Lexington Books

Summary: Field stations and marine laboratories (FSMLs) are sentinels of Earth’s climate, providing scientists with the Victoria M. McDermott, Jennifer M. Gee, Amy R. May, Danielle Becker, Lisa Busch, infrastructure to collect data in otherwise inaccessible areas of the Diane M. Debinski, Marilyn Fogel, Jessica E. Griffin, Gary M. Holliday, Yamila Hussein- globe. Many FSMLs were built around and continue to perpetuate Shannan, Brian D. Kloeppel male-dominated institutional ideologies, making...

9781793629401, 1793629404 Pub Date: 2/15/22 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 334 pages / 21 Illustrations including: 15 Black & White Illustrations; - 6 Tables.

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Radio Art and Music

Culture, Aesthetics, Politics Jarmila Mildorf, Pim Verhulst, Olivia Cacchione, Jade Conlee, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Paula Eisenstein Baker, Aikaterini Giampoura, Lucy Jeffery, Jeremy Lakoff, Emily Lane, David McCarthy

Contributor Bio

Jarmila Mildorf teaches English language and literature at the University of Paderborn.

Pim Verhulst is assistant professor of English literature at the University of Antwerp.

Lexington Books 9781498599818 Pub Date: 12/20/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR Paperback 282 Pages 16 Illustrations including: - 7 Charts; - 9 Tables.

Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19

#Verzuz and Club Quarantine Niya Pickett Miller, Mtali Banda, Janée N. Burkhalter, Kirstin Cheers, Jabari Evans, M.D., Aisha Damali Lockridge, Karl O. Lyn, June Mia, Eletra S. Gilchrist-Petty, Gheni Platenburg

Summary

Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine argues that Instagram is a premier digital leisure space to celebrate and promote Black American culture and identity, particularly evidenced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as the United States grappled with mandated shelter-in-place orders. Club Quarantine (CQ) and Verzuz emerged as highly successful Black music-listening events streamed on Instagram Live, collectively ushering Black (techno)culture ...

Contributor Bio Lexington Books 9781793645043 Pub Date: 9/30/21 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR Hardcover

Niya Pickett Miller is assistant professor of communication studies in the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University.

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Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance Murat Akser, Victoria McCollum

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781538158715 Pub Date: 06/10/2021 £31.00 UK/€34.95 EU Paperback 210 Pages 3 Illustrations including: - 2 Charts; - 1 Tables.

21.7 cm H | 15.6 cm W | 1.6 cm T | 326.6 g Wt

Summary

The transformations in alternative media, journalism and social protest in contemporary Turkey have largely occurred due to the upsurge in use of social media.

Some of the most fervent users of social media in the world come from Turkey where forms of social media are frequently banned by the Turkish government. This book looks at the structural, economic and political reasons why the current media system fails urban educated young professionals in Turkey and led them to a month long resistance and protest through the use of social media during OccupyGezi movement.

The book outlines the history of alternative media use and the ways in which it has become a tool for the critics of the neoliberal economic system in Turkey. The collection concentrates on social media use within social movements and applies interdisciplinary approaches and research methods, ranging from cinema and visual arts to sociology, political science, content analysis and ethnographic study.

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9781793620781 Lexington Books Pub Date: 07/07/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 174 pages • Hardcover

Barry Goldwater, Distrust in Media, and Conservative Identity: The Perception of Liberal

Covering the Border War: How the News Media

Bias in the News

Creates Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide

Rich Shumate

Sang Hea Kil

The perception that the news media in the United States have a liberal bias is a phenomenon that animates conservatives and affects the ways in which they consider both media content and political discourse. Despite professional standards that have been put in place to prevent deliberate bias, conse...

Covering the Border War: How the News Media Create Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is associa...

9781498561440 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/07/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 232 pages • Paperback

Media Ethics: Issues and Cases (10th Edition)

Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems

Lee Wilkins, Chad Painter, Philip Patterson

Daniela V. Dimitrova

9781538146859 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 10/08/2021 £38.00 GBP/€45.95 EUR 258 pages • Paperback

9781793640390 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 174 pages • Hardcover

Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as technological change across media industries, the book o...

9781538142370 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 07/07/2021 £65.00 GBP/€76.95 EUR 408 pages • Paperback

News Media and the Indigenous Fight for Federal Recognition

Reporting Immigration Conflict: Opportunities

Cristina Azocar

Mariely Valentin-Llopis

Federal recognition enables tribes to govern themselves and make decisions for their citizens that have the power to retain their cultures. But over the last forty years, the news media coverage of the federal recognition of tribes has perpetuated ignorance and stereotypes about tribal sovereignty. ...

In Reporting Immigration Conflict: Opportunities for Peace Journalism, Mariely Valentin-Llopis examines the role of American and Mexican media in promoting harsh views against Central American migrants. This examination focuses on the U.S. southwestern border crossing conflict in 2014 and 2019, both...

for Peace Journalism

9781793613493 Lexington Books Pub Date: 26/08/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 144 pages • Hardcover

To See and Be Seen: The Environments,

Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media: The Construction of

Interactions and Identities Behind News Images

Social Order

T. J. Thomson

9781538148020 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 15/03/2022 £28.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 186 pages • Paperback

To See and Be Seen is also available as an audiobook via Amazon, Audible, and Apple Books. Whether inscribed in physical media, projected on surfaces, or viewed on digital devices, we find ourselves constantly inundated with streams of visual data. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how these im...

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Sebahattin Ziyanak

9780761873143 Hamilton Books Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £54.00 GBP/€66.95 EUR 130 pages • Hardcover

The author examines parental responsibility for their children’s development. The authors then summarize the functionalist perspective of deviance, the function of crimes, and how these perspectives have influenced the development of Emile Durkheim’s work like anomie. The authors then turn their att...

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American Propaganda from the Spanish-American War to Iraq War Stories Steven R. Brydon

Lexington Books 9781793626134 Pub Date: 01/11/2021 £92.00 UK/€112.00 EU Hardcover 320 Pages 8 Illustrations including: - 8 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.

23.8 cm H | 16 cm W | 2.4 cm T | 589.7 g Wt

Summary

In this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brydon argues that many of these wars were fought based on false or misleading narratives, beginning with blaming Spain for the sinking of the Maine and continuing, most recently, with charges that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11. Research has shown that well-told stories can affect the public’s beliefs, attitudes, and actions, and Brydon has identified some of these recurring stories that have been told to support and sustain each war during this time period. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, Brydon critically evaluates these “war stories” to determine if they possessed narrative coherence and fidelity that provided good reasons to go to war, rather than simply the appearance of these qualities. The responsibility, Brydon stresses, is on the media and on academics to vi...

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9781538161265 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 28/10/2021 £28.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 210 pages • Paperback

Campaigning in the Aftermath of the 2020 Elections: A Communications Perspective

Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe:

Robert E. Denton, Jr., Robert Denton

Rodwell Makombe

The post-election period of the 2020 presidential campaign is historic not only for the culmination of tensions in the January 6, 2021 storming of the US capitol, but also in the very persistence of campaigning after the election was over. Historically, political campaigns have had only four phases:...

Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe explores how ordinary citizens appropriate and deploy cultural texts such as internet memes, songs, political cartoons and social media discussions as vehicles to contest hegemonic narratives of the state and insert alternative ways of imagining the future of...

Music, Memes, and Media

9781538150917 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 01/10/2021 £88.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 272 pages • Hardcover

Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy:

Embodied Activisms: Performative Expressions

Joshua Guitar

Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, Natalie Bennie, Mary Angela Bock, Jordin Clark, Molly Wiant Cummins, Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik, Margaret Cavin Hambrick, Billy Huff, Sakina Jangbar

of Political and Social Action

Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation

9781793639257 Lexington Books Pub Date: 01/10/2021 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 220 pages • Hardcover

Government whistleblowers contest authoritarian power.

Yet, critical scholars have only minimally examined whistleblower discourses and hesitate to substantively interrogate the ideology of statism. In Dissent, Discourse, and Democracy: Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation, the author a...

9781793616524 Lexington Books Pub Date: 31/01/2022 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 328 pages • Hardcover

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of

Horror Framing and the General Election:

Lori L. Montalbano, Arshia Anwer, Rachel D. Davidson, Catherine A. Dobris, Katherine Hampsten, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Andre E. Johnson, Rebecca Kern-Stone, Chandra A. Maldonado, Hinda Mandell

Fielding Montgomery

Ghosts and Ghouls in Twenty-First-Century Presidential Campaign Advertisements

Political Access

9781498573856 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/10/2021 £33.00 GBP/€41.95 EUR 308 pages • Paperback

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work ex...

9781793643216 Lexington Books Pub Date: 21/09/2021 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 240 pages • Hardcover

In Horror Framing and the General Election: Ghosts and Ghouls in Twenty-First-Century Presidential Campaign Advertisements, Fielding Montgomery reveals a pattern of mostly increasing horror framing implemented across presidential elections from 2000 to 2020. By analyzing the two most common framewor...

Leaders without Partisans: Dealignment, Media

Money in Politics: Campaign Fundraising in the

Diego Garzia, Frederico Ferreira de Silva, Andrea De Angelis

Cayce Myers

2020 Presidential Election

Change, and the Personalization of Politics

9781538156766 ECPR Press Pub Date: 01/09/2021 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 268 pages • Hardcover

Embodied Activisms explores how activists use their bodies to resist social norms, engage with institutions, and promote change. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts, and the most current scholarly literature to interrogate how embodied activisms are read, performed, understood,...

Leaders without Partisans examines the changing impact of party leader evaluations on voters’ behavior in parliamentary elections. The decline of traditional social cleavages, the pervasive mediatization of the political scene, and the media’s growing tendency to portray politics in “personalistic” ...

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9781793640277 Lexington Books Pub Date: 09/11/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 186 pages • Hardcover

Money in Politics: Campaign Fundraising in the 2020 Presidential Election illustrates political fundraising’s importance in the 2020 presidential election from the party primaries through the General Election. Cayce Myers addresses how the role of corporate donations, individual contributors, and sm...

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Lexington Books

The Political Interview : Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone

Summary: The landscape of broadcast news media is constantly changing, partly under the influence of changing technology but also due to changes in the social role of television journalism. The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone takes a sociological and linguistic a...

The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation

Summary: The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, based on biographies, academic sources, newspaper, television, and reports published in the United States and...

Ian Hutchby 9781793640093, 1793640092 Pub Date: 1/31/22 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 196 pages Hardcover

Vânia Penha-Lopes 9781793611307, 1793611300 Pub Date: 11/17/21 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 252 pages Hardcover

Lexington Books

Studies of Communication in the 2020 Presidential Campaign Summary: Robert E. Denton, Jr., Dennis Cali, Kevin Coe, Kelly Connor, William O. Dailey, David R. Dewberry, Edward A. Hinck, Robert S. Hinck, Shelly S. Hinck, Christina Knopf 9781793654403, 1793654409 Pub Date: 10/18/21 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 218 pages / 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations.

Hardcover Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication

Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades : Modern Challenges to the Two-Party System in Presidential Elections Melissa M. Smith 9781793620729, 1793620725 Pub Date: 1/31/22 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 248 pages Hardcover Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication

Lexington Books

Studies of Communication in the 2020 Presidential Campaign explores a wide range of communication elements, themes, and topics of the 2020 presidential election. The introduction provides a brief snapshot summarizing the role of more traditional elements of campaign communication as well as...

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Summary: Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades analyzes 10 third-party, outsider, or renegade presidential candidates and explores each one's impact on the political process. The list of modern outsider candidates who have attracted the public’s attention is fairly long, but most of the time the c...

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The 12 Attributes of Extraordinary Media Professionals Roger Cooper

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781538116272 Pub Date: 23/07/2021 £26.00 UK/€33.95 EU Paperback 184 Pages 40 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Tables; 38 Text Boxes.

25.3 cm H | 18 cm W | 1.1 cm T | 326.6 g Wt

Summary

Careers in media and creative professions are extremely competitive, with less direct pathways to jobs and advancement relative to more traditional or technical professions. Many future media professionals train for careers without a clear understanding that personal attributes like adaptability, integrity, and confidence are just as important as any practical or theoretical knowledge. In today’s flooded market of talented and intelligent job applicants, it is more important than ever that media and communications professionals master critical soft skills to succeed in building their career. In The 12 Attributes of Extraordinary Media Professionals, Roger Cooper shows young professionals that while personal attributes are essential to success, building these soft skills is a dynamic process that can be just as enjoyable as it is rewarding.

This book fills a void in the personal and professional development of media professionals by presenting key attributes as a system of qualities tha...

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9781793648310 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 242 pages • Hardcover

Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media

Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender,

Whitney Hardin, Julia E. Kiernan, Lindsay Adams Kennedy, Rea Amit, Carol Donelan, John W. Gulledge, Martín Ponti, Anamika Purohit, Robert Rozema

Renée T. White, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, dann j. Broyld, Cynthia Baron, Dolita Dannêt Cathcart, Gabriel A. Cruz, Neal Curtis, Zeinabu irene Davis, Mikal J. Gaines, Giselle Greenidge

Examining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other examples of remixed narratives) can shape and shift the social contexts and narratives we use to define mental disability. The movement of narratives across med...

Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness

Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-making of Blackness, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of Black Panther, discusses the importance of superheroes and the ways in which they are especially important to Black fans. Aside from its global box office succ...

9781793623577 Lexington Books Pub Date: 30/08/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 382 pages • Hardcover

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives

The Anthropocene and the Undead: Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

James D. Reid, Candace R. Craig

9781498555951 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/07/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 280 pages • Paperback

Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives offers a sustained philosophical interpretation of the filmmaker’s work in light of classic and contemporary discussions of human agency and the complex relations between our capacity to act and our ability to imagine. Wi...

Kyle William Bishop, Mikaela Bobiy, Aaron Bradshaw, Nils Bubandt, Daisy Butcher, Elana Gomel, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Steffen Hantke, Johan Höglund, Sarah Lewison, Lars Schmeink 9781793625823 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/03/2022 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 276 pages • Hardcover

The Artist as Inventor: Investigating Media

Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and

Valentino Catricalà, Arabella Ciampi

Steven A. Benko, Jill B. Delston, John Hillman, Douglas L. Howard, Matt Hummel, Alisa Johnson, Eleanor Jones, Dutton Kearney, Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Matilde Accurso Liotta

Technology through Art

9781786611321 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 13/07/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 210 pages • Hardcover

Today the media arts not only address the great themes of our times, they inhabit the very media of which they speak. The contemporary is global, but only because of the media that enable globalisation. Those media are almost nowhere apparent in the mainstream practice of art that we see in biennial...

Moral Identity Formation

Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection.

Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit mor...

9781793636188 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 364 pages • Hardcover

Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured

Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series

Realities, and New Media

Luca Bandirali, Enrico Terrone

Lindsay Nelson

9781793613677 Lexington Books Pub Date: 11/10/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 148 pages • Hardcover

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptuall...

Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media explores the changing role of screens, new media objects, and social media in Japanese horror films from the 2010s to present day. Lindsay Nelson places these films and their paratexts in the context of changes in the new media la...

9781498597562 Lexington Books Pub Date: 08/11/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 144 pages • Hardcover

What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series, they contend that television series are concepts that manifest themselves thro...

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9781538158982 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 16/02/2022 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 212 pages • Hardcover

Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa

John Alexander Williams, Alexandra Hagen

Kyounghoon Lee, John M. Frankl

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, efforts to improve human rights, social equality, and democracy in western Europe have faced growing challenges that range from economic and medical crises to the resurgence of the tribalist far right. Studying western European cinema reveals how filmmaker...

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa examines the cultural and social impact of Japanese colonialism and modernity on the wider aspects of everyday life in Korea. Selected as an outstanding work in 2004 by the National Academy of Sciences in South Korea, is by any measur...

9781666906288 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/02/2022 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 294 pages • Hardcover

Curating Culture: How Twentieth-Century

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films

Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, Charles Whitaker

Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Lauren Bettridge, Susan Flynn, Reshmi J. Hebbar, Lara V. Kattekola, Izabella Kimak, Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez, J. Sunita Peacock, Setara Pracha, Amardeep Singh

Magazines Influenced America

9781538138113 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 13/07/2021 £26.00 GBP/€33.95 EUR 224 pages • Paperback

Print magazines were the original niche medium, creating communities long before the internet allowed audiences to find specialized content and interact with like-minded readers. Consumer magazines provided information, inspiration, empathy and advocacy for readers with specific goals and concerns. ...

of Gurinder Chadha

9781666912852 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/04/2022 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 270 pages • Hardcover

Existential Science Fiction

Films as Rhetorical Texts: Cultivating

Discussion about Race, Racism, and Race Relations

Ryan Lizardi

9781793647351 Lexington Books Pub Date: 05/01/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 170 pages • Hardcover

9781498570725 Lexington Books Pub Date: 24/01/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 222 pages • Hardcover

This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society’s conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most poignantly, Ryan Lizardi argues, are the ways in which a recent cluster of science fiction media, inclu...

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive po...

Janice D. Hamlet, Raymond Blanton, Rekha Sharma, Tewodros Workneh, Gordon Alley-Young, Gregory Adamo, Gregory A. Cranmer, Tina M. Harris, Sheryl Lidzy, Debra C. Smith

9781793602732 Lexington Books Pub Date: 13/10/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 242 pages • Paperback

Films as Rhetorical Texts: Cultivating Discussion about Race, Racism, and Race Relations presents critical essays focusing on select commercial films and what they can teach us about race, racism, and race relations in America.

The films in this volume are critically assessed as rhetorical texts usi...

German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London

Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963

Nicholas G. Schlegel

Samson Kaunga Ndanyi

German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London examines the Kriminalfilme—or Krimis—based on the novels of English author Edgar Wallace, released by Rialto Film between 1959 and 1972 as part of the post-World War II era of German popular cinema that enjoyed extraordinary ...

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The aut...

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9781793649249 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/03/2022 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 176 pages • Hardcover

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Kevin Costner, America's Teacher

Photo-Essays about Asian American Women in Life Magazine 1936 to 1965: Hidden

Ludovic A. Sourdot, Edward Janak, Jerry Ausburn, Mike Borowczak, Andrea C. Burrows, Michelle Chamberlin, William Gombash, Andrew Grunzke, Bradley W. Hart, Dennis R. Hart

9781793647863 Lexington Books Pub Date: 31/01/2022 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 224 pages • Hardcover

Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad.

Costner’s career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards bu...

Narratives and Breaking Stereotypes Karen L. Ching Carter

9781793613073 Lexington Books Pub Date: 12/10/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 156 pages • Hardcover

Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914–1925: Modernity, the Cultural Imaginary,

Representations of Black Womanhood on Television: Being Mara Brock Akil

and the Middle Society

Shauntae Brown White, Kandace L. Harris, Imani M. Cheers, Tina M. Harris, Natasha R. Howard, Ronald L. Jackson, II, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Candace P. Parrish, Lisa M. Paulin, Roslyn M. Satchel

Peijie Mao

9781498544788 Lexington Books Pub Date: 02/12/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 412 pages • Hardcover

This book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School” in early twentieth-century China. It examines the national, gender, family, and social imaginaries constructed and negotiated through a complex network of relationships between pop...

9781498592680 Lexington Books Pub Date: 06/07/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 218 pages • Paperback

Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

Kellie Deys, Denise F. Parrillo, Denise A. Ayo, Aaron Clayton, Ethan Faust, Joseph V. Giunta, Farisa Khalid, Vincent A. Lankewish, Christopher Maiytt

9781793622105 Lexington Books Pub Date: 04/11/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 234 pages • Hardcover

Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Cory Barker, Whitney Hardin, Julia E. Kiernan, Carl Wilson, Joan Ormrod, James C. Taylor, Forrest Johnson, Matthew Thompson, Angelique Nairn The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: ...

9781793624598 Lexington Books Pub Date: 01/11/2021 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 322 pages • Hardcover

Television Dramas and the Global Village:

White Masculinity in Crisis in Hollywood’s Fin de Millennium Cinema

Diana I. Ríos, Carolyn A. Lin, Saleem Abbas, Gordon AlleyYoung, Inna Arzumanova, Nettie Brock, Lorena Caminhas, George Daniels, Karin A. Haberlin, Elizabeth Fish Hatfield, Patricia Jullia

Pete Deakin

Storytelling through Race and Gender

9781793613523 Lexington Books Pub Date: 18/10/2021 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 330 pages • Hardcover

Being Mara Brock Akil: Representations of Black Womanhood on Television examines the body of work of Mara Brock Akil, the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is__.

The contributions to this volume are theoretically anchored in Patricia Hill Collin’s Black Feminis...

The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic

Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films

Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells. Whether these films challenge or perpetuate traditional structures (or do both), their considerable i...

The editors of Life Magazine, a mass-produced picture magazine, composed picture narratives that entertained, informed, and influenced mid-twentieth-century American society. Photo-Essays about Asian American Women in Life Magazine 1936 to 1965: Hidden Narratives and Breaking Stereotypes is a rhetor...

This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexual...

9781498585217 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/07/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 200 pages • Paperback

White Masculinity in Crisis in Hollywood’s Fin de Millennium Cinema claims that Hollywood cinema had a significant relationship with the millennial crisis of masculinity. From Fight Club (Fincher, 1999) and American Psycho (Harron, 2000), to Office Space (Judge, 1999), The Matrix (Wachowski’s, 1999)...

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Homeless Voices

Stigma, Space, and Social Media Mary L. Schuster

Lexington Books 9781793635709 Pub Date: 24/01/2022 £77.00 UK/€98.00 EU Hardcover 266 Pages 23.9 cm H | 16.1 cm W | 2.6 cm T | 576.1 g Wt

Summary

Homeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media argues that the best sources for how to address issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly as they express their experiences through personal blogs and memoirs. Mary L. Schuster discusses how space and land have been historically denied to marginalized communities who still feel the effects to this day, along with examining the conditions and limitations of common spaces often assigned to those experiencing homelessness, culminating in an analysis of how the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted homelessness. Schuster focuses on two vulnerable groups that often experience homelessness: victims of domestic violence and unaccompanied youth, particularly those who struggle with gender identity and unstable housing. This book includes a variety of case studies, examining public meetings and court decisions, public policy symposiums, and personal interviews, and ultimately finds that intersectiona...

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Lexington Books Fracking and the Rhetoric of Place : How We Argue from Where We Stand Justin Mando 9781793620873 Pub Date: 10/19/21 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 184 pages / 14 Illustrations including: - 5 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 9 Tables.

Hardcover Series: Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene Territory: 22.8 cm H | 16.1 cm W | 1.7 cm T | 494.4 g Wt

Summary: Fracking and the Rhetoric of Place investigates the rhetorical strategies of speakers at public hearings on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in order to understand how places shape and are shaped by citizens as they engage in their democracy. As an important argumentative resource in environmental controversy, the rhetoric of place helps citizens situate themselves within local contexts and raise their voices in times of social conflict. Justin Mando uses rhetorical analysis, discourse...

Contributor Bio: Justin Mando is associate professor of science and technical writing in the Department of English at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Lexington Books Language, Literacy, and Health : Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System Izabel Magalhães, Kênia Lara da Silva, Júlia Argenta, Rebeca Pereira 9781793600882 Pub Date: 12/6/21 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 296 pages / 9 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 4 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Tables.

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Summary: Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices in Brazil’s national health system, the Unified Health System (SUS), with a particular focus on the Family Health Strategy program. The SUS was established in the 1990s, offering free consultations, health promotion activities, and home visits by a professional team to the Brazilian population. Using research conducted in two different Brazilian region...

Contributor Bio: Izabel Magalhães is a researcher in discourse analysis and literacy. Kênia Lara da Silva is a member of the teaching staff in the graduate program in nursing at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte.

Lexington Books Rhetoric and Governance under Trump : Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit Bernd Kaussler, Lars J. Kristiansen, Jeffrey Delbert 9781498594851 Pub Date: 1/31/22 £33.00 GBP/€41.95 EUR 386 pages Paperback Series: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric Territory: 23 cm H | 15.5 cm W | 2.7 cm T | 535.2 g Wt

Summary: Rhetoric and Governance under Trump: Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump’s deeply illiberal rhetoric, cruel policies, corruption, disruptive foreign policy, and disdain for the rule of law makes him a textbook populist.

However, his embrace of mainstream conservative policies and the culture war narratives that come with them made him a rather conventional Republican. Being more plutocrat than populist, Trump had to bridge thi...

Contributor Bio: Bernd Kaussler is professor of political science at James Madison University.

Lars J. Kristiansen is assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University.

Jeffrey Delbert is associate professor in the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

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Lexington Books A Rhetoric of Ruins : Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity Andrew F. Wood 9781793611512 Pub Date: 9/20/21 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 218 pages / 32 Illustrations including: - 32 Black & White Illustrations.

Hardcover Series: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric Territory: 22.7 cm H | 16 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 521.6 g Wt

Summary: A Rhetoric of Ruins contributes to an interdisciplinary conversation about the role of wrecked and abandoned places in modern life. Topics in this book stretch from retro- and post-human futures to a Jeremiadic analysis of the role of ruins in American presidential discourse. From that foundation, A Rhetoric of Ruins employs hauntology to visit a California ghost-town, psychogeography to confront Detroit ruins, heterochrony to survey Pennsylvania’s once (and future) Graffiti Highway, an...

Contributor Bio: Andrew F. Wood is professor of communication studies at San José State University.

Lexington Books Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings : Was Blind but Now I See Sean Patrick O'Rourke, Melody Lehn, Luke D. Christie, Patricia G. Davis, David A. Frank, Margaret Franz, Daniel A. Grano, Donna Hunter, Camille K. Lewis 9781498550635 Pub Date: 10/12/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 274 pages / 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.

Paperback Series: Rhetoric, Race, and ReligionTerritory: 21.7 cm H | 15.6 cm W | 2 cm T | 494.4 g Wt

Summary: Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind but Now I See is a collection focusing on the Charleston shootings written by leading scholars in the field who consider the rhetoric surrounding the shootings. This book offers an appraisal of the discourses – speeches, editorials, social media posts, visual images, prayers, songs, silence, demonstrations, and protests – that constituted, contested, and reconstituted the shootings in American civic life and cultural memo...

Contributor Bio: Melody Lehn is assistant professor of rhetoric and women’s and gender studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Sean Patrick O'Rourke is professor of rhetoric and American studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Rhetorical Criticism : Perspectives in Action (3rd Edition) Jim A. Kuypers 9781538138144 Pub Date: 7/19/21 £45.00 GBP/€55.95 EUR 408 pages / 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Black & White Illustrations.

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Summary: Covering a broad range of rhetorical perspectives, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action, third edition presents a well-grounded introduction to the basics of rhetorical criticism and theory in an accessible manner for advanced undergraduate courses and introductory graduate courses. Throughout the text, sample essays written by noted experts in the field provide students with models for writing their own criticisms. In addition to covering traditional modes of rhetorical critici...

Contributor Bio: Jim A. Kuypers is professor of communication at Virginia Tech. His many publications include Twentieth Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies, Bush’s War, and Partisan Journalism (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title). He has been honored with the American Communication Association’s Outstanding Contribution to Communication Scholarship Award, the Southern States Communication Association’s Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award, and Dartmouth

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Lexington Books Building Sexual Misconduct Cases against Powerful Men Shing-Ling S. Chen, Zhuojun Joyce Chen, Nicole Allaire, Melissa L. Beall, Teri Del Rosso, Stacey Hannem, Nichole K. Kathol, Zanetta Miller 9781498587495 Pub Date: 7/2/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 192 pages Paperback 22 cm H | 15.3 cm W | 1.4 cm T | 285.8 g Wt

Summary: Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men presents a fine-grained analysis of how the rhetorical and social aspects of rape culture and patriarchy lead to a pattern of sexual misconduct. Contributors discuss the causes of the pattern, the obstacles to overcoming it, and potential solutions through a radical feminist lens.

Scholars of media, legal, gender, and women's studies will find this volume particularly useful.

Contributor Bio: Nicole Allaire is lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University. Shing-Ling S. Chen is professor of mass communication in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. Zhoujun Joyce Chen is professor emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.

Lexington Books Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture : Sex After #MeToo Kelly Wilz 9781498588706 Pub Date: 10/18/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 202 pages Paperback 21.8 cm H | 15.4 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 371.9 g Wt

Summary: Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo provides audiences with constructive models of affirmative consent, tender masculinity, and pleasure in popular culture that work to challenge toxic dominant and hegemonic constructions. While numerous scholars have illustrated the many ways mediated culture shape social understandings of sexual violence, this book analyzes texts that might serve to resist rape culture. This project locates how these texts manufacture cinemati...

Contributor Bio: Kelly Wilz is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Lexington Books The Victim's Voice in the Sexual Misconduct Crisis : Identity, Credibility, and Proof Mary L. Schuster 9781498598484 Pub Date: 10/12/21 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 224 pages Paperback 21.7 cm H | 15.6 cm W | 1.7 cm T | 412.8 g Wt

Summary: The Victim’s Voice in the Sexual Misconduct Crisis investigates how a victim’s voice, identity, credibility, and proof are challenged or established in the current sexual misconduct crisis. Using communication and rhetorical analysis, gender studies, and law and society perspectives, Mary Schuster examines concerns such as victim impact statements offered in sentencing hearings of convicted offenders, due process and Title IX requirements in campus sexual assault investigations, and law...

Contributor Bio: Mary Schuster is professor in the Department of Writing Studies and affiliated faculty member with the Law School at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Reckoning with Social Media : Disconnection in the Age of the Techlash Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, Tero Karppi 9781538147405 Pub Date: 11/4/21 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 250 pages / 8 Illustrations including: - 6 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Tables.

Hardcover 22.8 cm H | 16.1 cm W | 2.4 cm T | 653.2 g Wt

Summary: Once celebrated for connecting people and circulating ideas, social media are facing mounting criticisms about their anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy. Known cumulatively as the “techlash,” journalists, users, and politicians are asking social media platforms to account for being too big, too engaging, and too unruly. In the age of the techlash, strategies to regulate how platforms operate technically, economically, and legally, are often stacked against...

Contributor Bio: Aleena Chia is lecturer of media, communications, and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her previous appointments include assistant professor at the School of Communication in Simon Fraser University. She researches cultures of creativity in digital game production, social media disconnection, and Silicon Valley spiritual subcultures. Her work has been published in the Internet Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Social Media : How to Engage, Share, and Connect (4th Edition) Regina Luttrell 9781538154427 Pub Date: 7/8/21 £27.00 GBP/€33.95 EUR 264 pages / 127 Illustrations including: - 38 Black & White Illustrations; - 14 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 8 Tables; - 67 Text Boxes.

Paperback 25.7 cm H | 17.8 cm W | 1.5 cm T | 453.6 g Wt

Summary: Updated to reflect the latest technological innovations and challenges, the fourth edition of Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect helps students understand and successfully use today’s social media tools as PR professionals and personal users. Regina (Gina) Luttrell presents a thorough history of social media and pioneers of the field within chapters on specific subjects such as contentsharing, crisis communication, ethics, “sticky” social media, and strategic campaigns. Th...

Contributor Bio: Regina Luttrell is professor of public relations and social media and associate dean for research and creative activity at Syracuse University. She is the author of Social Media and Society: An Introduction to the Mass Media Landscape and Gen Z: The Superhero Generation.

Lexington Books Social Media, Technology, and New Generations : Digital Millennial Generation and Generation Z Ahmet Atay, Mary Z. Ashlock, Leyla Akbas, Oluwafunmilayo Alakija, Anthony Amedu, Lindsay J. Della, Lauren Dempsey, Brian Gilchrist, Yowei Kang 9781498550703 Pub Date: 2/15/22 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 198 pages Hardcover 22.9 cm H | 15.2 cm W

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Summary: This book builds on existing conversations surrounding millennials and media use by examining Generation Z’s engagement with new media technologies and comparing it to that of millennials. Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. Ashlock have assembled this edited volume in which contributors focus on three interrelated areas: how millennials and Gen Z use new media technologies and platforms in different contexts; how they use media and what they do with it; and the relationship between the two generati...

Contributor Bio: Ahmet Atay is associate professor of communication at the College of Wooster. Mary Z. Ashlock is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville.

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Revolution of the Modern Sports Fan

Kenon A. Brown, Andrew C. Billings, Melvin Lewis, James C. Abdallah, Mia Anderson, Zachary W. Arth, Nicholas R. Buzzelli, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Joshua Dickhaus

Lexington Books 9781793650627 Pub Date: 18/08/2021 £81.00 UK/€98.00 EU Hardcover 256 Pages 22 Illustrations including: - 5 Black & White Illustrations; - 17 Tables.

22.8 cm H | 16 cm W | 2.2 cm T | 585.1 g Wt

Summary

Revolution of the Modern Sports Fan explores the elements of the sports fan that have markedly changed in the past few years. Inherent within these investigations is the role of communication in a multitude of forms (mediated, relational, etc.) as the prototypical sports fan has most heavily shifted within this domain. From the advent of social media to the rise of fantasy sport to the increased media platforms in which to consume sport, the sports fan has never had more options for consumption—and for the rendering of one’s opinions. As such, Revolution of the Modern Sports Fan offers an opportunity to advance what we now know about American sports fandom as well as the ability to debunk what scholars thought they knew about sports fandom that has now shifted.

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Japanese Role-Playing Games

Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG Rachael Hutchinson, Jérémie PelletierGagnon, Fanny Barnabé, Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason, Joleen Blom, Andrew Campana, William Huber, Daniel Johnson, Yuhsuke Koyama, Loïc Mineau-Murray

Lexington Books 9781793643544 Pub Date: 15/03/2022 £92.00 UK/€112.00 EU Hardcover 350 Pages 27 Illustrations including: - 23 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Charts; - 3 Tables.

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Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as well as narrative themes, character construction, and player involvement. Contributors from Japan, Europe, North America, and Australia employ a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze popular game series and individual titles, introducing an English-speaking audience to Japanese video game scholarship while also extending postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text. In a three-pronged approach, the collection uses these analyses to look at genre, representation, and liminality, engaging with a multitude of concepts including stereotypes, intersectionality, and the political and social effects of JRPGs on players and industry conventions. Broadly, this collection considers JRPGs as networked systems, including evolved iterations of MMORPGs and card collecting “social ...

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The Holocaust across Borders: Trauma,

Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI,

Hilene S. Flanzbaum, Shira Klein, Holli Levitsky, Agnes Mueller, Victoria Aarons, Sarah Painitz, Amy Kaminsky, Joshua Lander, Lizy Mostowski, Ira Nadel

Nathan Rambukkana, Chloé L. Nurik, Maude Gauthier, Kim Sawchuk, Scott DeJong, Sebastián Gómez, Jordan Canzonetta, Nikila Lakshmanan, Julia A. Empey, Madelaine Ley

Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture

9781793612052 Lexington Books Pub Date: 29/06/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 296 pages • Hardcover

“Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. ...

Algorithms, and Equity

Intersectional Automations explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship. As robots, machine learnin...

9781793620514 Lexington Books Pub Date: 29/06/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 282 pages • Hardcover

Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War

Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema: Debates on Migration, Identity, and Finance

since World War II

Ugur Baloglu, Yildiz Derya Birincioglu, Özlem Oguzhan, Jane Hanley, Steven Edward Rawle, Gül Yasartürk

9781793648976 Lexington Books Pub Date: 29/06/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 164 pages • Hardcover

Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema discusses how cinema, particularly Hollywood, impacts the cultural identities we construct for ourselves in order to make sense of who we are in the world. The politics of representation in cinema influence the boundaries of ethnic and racial characteristics ...

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

9781793634979 Lexington Books Pub Date: 23/06/2021 £33.00 GBP/€41.95 EUR 306 pages • Paperback

The Consumer Insights Handbook: Unlocking

Counter-Terrorism Laws and Freedom of Expression: Global Perspectives

Danielle Sarver Coombs

Téwodros Workneh, Paul Haridakis, Rebecca AnanianWelsh, Nazli Bu¨lay Dogan, Peter Greste, Athina Karatzogianni, Isabel Serrano Maillo, Gabriela Martínez, Richard Murray, Daniel Oppermann

Audience Research Methods

9781538145517 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 22/06/2021 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 248 pages • Hardcover

At its core, consumer insights research is fun. Fast paced, creative, and exciting, working in this field means constant interaction and engagement with people, concepts, and ideas. The work is dynamic and intellectually challenging, celebrating innovative approaches that lead to unique explanations...

As nations have aggressively implemented a wide range of mechanisms to proactively curb potential threats terrorism, Counter-Terrorism Laws and Freedom of Expression: Global Perspectives offers critical insight into how counter-terrorism laws have adversely affected journalism practice, digital citi...

9781793622167 Lexington Books Pub Date: 22/06/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 408 pages • Hardcover

The Future of Feminism in Public Relations and Strategic Communication: A Socio-

Creative Expression and the Law Nancy Whitmore

9781538127063 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 22/06/2021 £65.00 GBP/€76.95 EUR 302 pages • Hardcover

Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet a...

Creative Expression and the Law helps readers better comprehend the legal pitfalls that can present themselves when artists and content creators are generating ideas, producing content and protecting and defending their creative work. In doing so, the book provides a deeper, more targeted examinatio...

Ecological Model of Influences Linda Aldoory, Elizabeth L. Toth

9781538128237 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 22/06/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 238 pages • Hardcover

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Creative Expression and the Law

The Consumer Insights Handbook: Unlocking Audience Research Methods

Nancy Whitmore

Danielle Sarver Coombs

9781538145524 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 18/06/2021 £42.00 GBP/€52.95 EUR 248 pages • Paperback

At its core, consumer insights research is fun. Fast paced, creative, and exciting, working in this field means constant interaction and engagement with people, concepts, and ideas. The work is dynamic and intellectually challenging, celebrating innovative approaches that lead to unique explanations...

9781538127070 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 18/06/2021 £28.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 224 pages • Paperback

The Future of Feminism in Public Relations and Strategic Communication: A Socio-

Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism: An Afrocentric Perspective

Ecological Model of Influences

Kehbuma Langmia

Linda Aldoory, Elizabeth L. Toth

9781538128244 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 18/06/2021 £32.00 GBP/€39.95 EUR 238 pages • Paperback

9781793639738 Lexington Books Pub Date: 14/06/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 204 pages • Hardcover

The Cinema of John Milius

9781498543743 Lexington Books Pub Date: 14/06/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 162 pages • Paperback

Moving beyond Blame Elizaveta Friesem

9781538150511 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 10/06/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 166 pages • Hardcover

Elizaveta Friesem argues that instead of being worried about media or blaming it for what’s going wrong in society, we should become curious about uniquely human ways we communicate with each other. Media Is Us proposes five key principles of communication that are relevant both for the modern media...

Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue:

Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in

Margaret M. Mullan

Jeff Heydon

Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue: Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy for Today discusses society’s problems with interpersonal communication, arguing that these issues are more deeply rooted in problems in being. Margaret M. Mullan draws on the work of Gabriel Marcel to explore the meaning of body, of...

Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority. The text begins by examining some of the basic levels at which the body interacts with media, and then expands the scope of the analysis to consid...

Governing

Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy for Today

9781793621771 Lexington Books Pub Date: 10/06/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 178 pages • Hardcover

Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism: An Afrocentric Perspective uses several lenses to examine the role of African Americans and Africans in the production and consumption of information in digital spaces. This book explores topics such as Black confluence of digital and in-person spaces, cyberculture ...

Media Is Us: Understanding Communication and

Alfio Leotta This book is devoted to the critical study of the cinema of John Milius, filling a major gap in the literature by combining the examination of the artistic, historical and cultural significance of Milius’ work, with an in-depth analysis of his films. Although most contemporary film-viewers have forg...

Creative Expression and the Law helps readers better comprehend the legal pitfalls that can present themselves when artists and content creators are generating ideas, producing content and protecting and defending their creative work. In doing so, the book provides a deeper, more targeted examinatio...

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9781793618177 Lexington Books Pub Date: 10/06/2021 £77.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 242 pages • Hardcover

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The 2020 Presidential Campaign: A

The 2020 Presidential Campaign: A

Robert E. Denton, Jr.

Robert E. Denton, Jr.

As he has done for each presidential campaign since 1992, Robert E. Denton Jr. gathers a diverse collection of communications scholars to analyze specific areas of the most recent campaign season. Topics include early campaign rhetoric, the nomination process and conventions, candidate strategies, p...

As he has done for each presidential campaign since 1992, Robert E. Denton Jr. gathers a diverse collection of communications scholars to analyze specific areas of the most recent campaign season. Topics include early campaign rhetoric, the nomination process and conventions, candidate strategies, p...

Communications Perspective

9781538156285 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 05/06/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 270 pages • Hardcover

Communications Perspective

9781538156346 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 03/06/2021 £35.00 GBP/€41.95 EUR 270 pages • Paperback

Computer-Mediated Communication: A

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

Theoretical and Practical Introduction to Online Human Communication

Lois Edmund

Caleb T. Carr

9781538131701 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 21/05/2021 £100.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 348 pages • Hardcover

As more of our human interaction moves online and facilitated by digital channels, it becomes increasingly important to understand how being online influences how we interact with others and ourselves. This textbook introduces students to the fundamental concepts, theories, and applications of compu...

9781538117637 Association for Conflict Resolution Pub Date: 21/05/2021 £58.00 GBP/€69.95 EUR 520 pages • Paperback

Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women: Sentences and Sponsors

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies Lois Edmund

Melanie N. Burdick

9781538117620 Association for Conflict Resolution Pub Date: 21/05/2021 £108.00 GBP/€133.00 EUR 520 pages • Hardcover

9781793620699 Lexington Books Pub Date: 18/05/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 126 pages • Hardcover

9781793615237 Lexington Books Pub Date: 20/05/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 148 pages • Hardcover

In Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women: Sentences and Sponsors, Melanie N. Burdick uses narrative research to elucidate the literacy experiences of formerly incarcerated women and how literacy has affected their lives, both while incarcerated and while transitioning back into society...

The Psychology and Communication Behind Flight Anxiety: Afraid to Fly

Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking

Lindsey A. Harvell-Bowman, Eric M. Wilson, John V. Panetti

Erika Engstrom, Ralph Beliveau

Drawing from psychology, journalism, and communication studies, The Psychology and Communication Behind Flight Anxiety: Afraid to Fly discusses how flight anxiety manifests in both healthy and unhealthy ways. Lindsay A. Harvell-Bowman analyzes decades of research and explores how journalists, aviati...

Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender in today’s mass media environment become the ...

about TV and the Movies

9781793619853 Lexington Books Pub Date: 11/05/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 148 pages • Hardcover

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Elite Cohesion in Mediatized Politics:

Media Feedback: Our Lives in Loops

European Perspectives

Ryan Rogers

9781793629319 Lexington Books Pub Date: 11/05/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 190 pages • Hardcover

Media Feedback: Our Lives in Loops provides an overview of the concept of media feedback, which is inherent in nearly every media platform we encounter on a daily basis. Rogers argues that every like on Facebook, view on Instagram, death in a video game, and movie suggestion on Netflix is a form of ...

Eva Mayerhöffer

9781538156827 ECPR Press Pub Date: 07/05/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 240 pages • Paperback

Parasocial Romantic Relationships: Falling in

Computer-Mediated Communication: A

Love with Media Figures

Theoretical and Practical Introduction to Online Human Communication

Riva Tukachinsky Forster

9781793609588 Lexington Books Pub Date: 05/05/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 170 pages • Hardcover

9781793613431 Lexington Books Pub Date: 22/04/2021 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 352 pages • Hardcover

Parasocial Romantic Relationships: Falling in Love with Media Figures explores how, why, and to what effect individuals develop romantic feelings toward people they “know” from the media. These imaginary, one-sided relationships, dubbed parasocial romantic relationships, are both profound and pervas...

Caleb T. Carr

9781538131718 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 29/04/2021 £50.00 GBP/€62.95 EUR 348 pages • Paperback

As so much of our human interaction passes through digital channels, it is essential to understand how being online influences how we communicate with others and ourselves. This textbook introduces students to the fundamental concepts, theories, and applications of computer-mediated communication. B...

Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, and Reception

Black Women Shattering Stereotypes: A

Andrea Virginás

Kay Siebler

Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, and Reception discusses how the Hungarian and Romanian film industries show signs of becoming a regional hub within the Eastern European canon, a process occasionally facilitated by the cultural overlap through the historical province of...

Black Women Shattering Stereotypes: A Streaming Revolution focuses on the work, voices, and perspectives of Black women in popular film and television. Kay Siebler argues that within the past five years, in response to the digital age and the number of racist stereotypes being purported in dominant ...

Streaming Revolution

9781793636003 Lexington Books Pub Date: 21/04/2021 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 248 pages • Hardcover

Polarized Politics in South Korea: Political

An Ecology of Communication: Response and

Oul Han

William Homestead

South Korea is one of the most successful cases of democratization and economic growth in the world. It shares one troubling problem with many other countries in recent years: the visible increase of extreme polarization in the language and emotions of political topics. However, Korea has experience...

An Ecology of Communication addresses an ecological and communicative dilemma: the universe, earth, and sociocultural life world are resoundingly dialogic, yet we have created modern and postmodern cultures largely governed by monologue. This book is indispensable reading for scholars and students ...

Culture and Democracy in Partisan Newspapers

9781793635914 Lexington Books Pub Date: 21/04/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 186 pages • Hardcover

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the political communication elite– high-ranking journalists, editors, politicians and their communication advisors – that shapes the content and form of political messages, news, debate and decisions in modern democracies. Based on an innovative...

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Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis

9781793618146 Lexington Books Pub Date: 20/04/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 390 pages • Hardcover

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9781793642349 Lexington Books Pub Date: 20/04/2021 £65.00 GBP/€76.95 EUR 116 pages • Hardcover

Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject

Electing Madam Vice President: When Women

Robert Samuels

Nichola D. Gutgold, Loretta T. Avent, Susan Wild

Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject defines Gen X as the first generation to be dominated by entertainment subjectivity. A social and psychological feedback loop is created as entertainment caters to adolescent consumers while the consumer, in turn, is shaped by the entertainment ...

Electing Madam Vice President presents the presidential bids of the six women who ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and the historic, groundbreaking vice-presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris. When Vice President Kamala Harris and her family moved into Nu...

Run Women Win

9781793622198 Lexington Books Pub Date: 19/04/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 160 pages • Hardcover

The European Right to Be Forgotten: The First

Rethinking Communication in Social Business: How Re-Modeling Communication

Amendment Enemy

Keeps Companies Social and Entrepreneurial

Kristie Byrum

9781498549622 Lexington Books Pub Date: 19/04/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 204 pages • Paperback

The European Right to be Forgotten: The First Amendment Enemy asserts that the right to be forgotten provision of the European General Data Protection Regulation threatens the free flow of information within a global society. In a thoughtful explanation of how the regulation functions as an enemy of...

Craig E. Mattson

9781498555920 Lexington Books Pub Date: 19/04/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 210 pages • Paperback

Historical Dictionary of Journalism (2nd

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society

Ross Eaman

Howard Giles, Edward R. Maguire, Shawn L. Hill, Darrel W. Stephens, Daniel Angus, Caroline Bettinger-López, Brian Blakemore, Scott E. Branton, Chandrika C. Collins, Travis Dixon, Tamar Ezer

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9781538125038 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 15/04/2021 £146.00 GBP/€182.00 EUR 520 pages • Hardcover

This book covers the history of journalism as an institutionalized form of discourse from the acta diurna in ancient Rome to the news aggregators of the 21st century.

It traces how journalism gradually distinguished itself from chronicles, history, and the novel in conjunction with the evolution of ...

9781538132890 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 15/04/2021 £108.00 GBP/€133.00 EUR 424 pages • Hardcover

the Mass Media Landscape

Angela Cooke-Jackson, Valerie Rubinsky, Ashley Aragon, Sarah De Los Upton, Nicholas Flores, Diane Francis, Jacqueline Gunning, Rachel Hanebutt, Leandra Hernandez, Amanda Holman Communicating Intimate Health presents an edited collection of original, empirical research, personal essays, autoethnography, critical reviews, and theoretical work showcasing advances in intimate health research from the field of communication studies. Intimate health includes sexual and reproduct...

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police refo...

Social Media and Society: An Introduction to

Communicating Intimate Health

9781793630964 Lexington Books Pub Date: 14/04/2021 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 326 pages • Hardcover

Social entrepreneurship increasingly assumes a position of strength in the dynamic milieu of late-modern democratic societies. A plethora of companies have now arisen —everything from mighty social enterprises like Warby Parker and TOMS to tiny outfits like Clean Slate and Bright Endeavors—whose busi...

Regina Luttrell, Adrienne A. Wallace

9781538129081 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 14/04/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 256 pages • Hardcover

Regina Luttrell and Adrienne A. Wallace present an engaging introduction of social media’s integration with modern society. Recognizing categories of relational, societal, and self while analyzing the social media environment, this introductory mass communications textbook establishes a framework fo...

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Social Media and Society: An Introduction to

Representing Agency in Popular Culture:

the Mass Media Landscape

Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between

Regina Luttrell, Adrienne A. Wallace

Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly, David Buckingham, Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Tabitha Parry Collins, Michael G. Cornelius, Mary L. Fahrenbruck, Catherine Hartung 9781498574969 Lexington Books Pub Date: 12/04/2021 £33.00 GBP/€41.95 EUR 322 pages • Paperback

9781786606358 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 09/04/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 252 pages • Hardcover

Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this b...

9781538129098 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 12/04/2021 £46.00 GBP/€55.95 EUR 256 pages • Paperback

South Korea's Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution

Creating Restorative Justice: A Communication

Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim

Gregory D. Paul, Ian M. Borton

This book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons – also known as webcomics – and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them. It offers an engaging discussion of webtoons themsel...

Discussion of the histories, meanings, and assumptions of restorative justice have enriched the development of its theory, research, and practices. While some of this work has addressed the role of communication, the treatment of communication within restorative justice remains rather under-develope...

Perspective of Justice, Restoration, and Community

9781498576451 Lexington Books Pub Date: 07/04/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 128 pages • Hardcover

Performative Memoir: The Methodology of a

The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black

Theresa Carilli, Adrienne Viramontes

Reynaldo Anderson, Clinton R. Fluker, Sheree Renée Thomas, Souleymane Ba, Wriply Marie Bennet, Iain Campbell, Enrique Carrion, Dariel Cobb, Tim Fielder

Creative Process

9781793632975 Lexington Books Pub Date: 31/03/2021 £69.00 GBP/€84.00 EUR 132 pages • Hardcover

In Performative Memoir: The Methodology of a Creative Process, Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes construct a new genre of writing, performative memoir. Drawing on scholarship in performance studies and autoethnography, the authors outline a methodology for studying autoethnography, performance...

Futurity, Art+Design

9781498510554 Lexington Books Pub Date: 29/03/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 214 pages • Paperback

Building Communities through Food:

Change from World War II to 2020 Daniel Miles Amos

David F. Purnell Building Communities through Food: Strengthening Communication, Families, and Social Capital examines the power of food as a communicative tool to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. David F. Purnell argues that food enables people to look past their differences and focus on their similari...

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The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international ar...

Hong Kong Martial Artists: Sociocultural

Strengthening Communication, Families, and Social Capital

9781498558921 Lexington Books Pub Date: 29/03/2021 £31.00 GBP/€34.95 EUR 154 pages • Paperback

Regina Luttrell and Adrienne A. Wallace present an engaging introduction of social media’s integration with modern society. Recognizing categories of relational, societal, and self while analyzing the social media environment, this introductory mass communications textbook establishes a framework fo...

9781786615435 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 24/03/2021 £92.00 GBP/€112.00 EUR 228 pages • Hardcover

This imaginative and innovative study by Daniel Miles Amos, begun in 1976 and completed in 2020, examines sociocultural changes in the practices of Chinese martial artists in two closely related and interconnected southern Chinese cities, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The initial chapters of the book com...

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Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China:

Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism: The Making of a Nation in Kurdish

TV Drama as Popular Media

Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914)

Qian Gong

Deniz Ekici

9781793612595 Lexington Books Pub Date: 23/03/2021 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 252 pages • Hardcover

9781793639318 Lexington Books Pub Date: 19/03/2021 £73.00 GBP/€91.00 EUR 154 pages • Hardcover

9781793642288 Lexington Books Pub Date: 18/03/2021 £96.00 GBP/€119.00 EUR 408 pages • Hardcover

9781793607362 Lexington Books Pub Date: 17/03/2021 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 274 pages • Hardcover

A major common misconception in scholarship on Kurdish journalistic discourses is that Kurdish intellectuals of the late Ottoman period cannot be portrayed as Kurdish nationalists. This theory prevails because of the belief that they not only endorsed and promoted Pan-Islamism and Ottoman nationalis...

In the 1990s, China’s economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-emerged. Red Classics, a historic-revolutionary themed genre created in the high socialist era were widely taken up again in television drama adaptations. T...

9781786609250 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 22/03/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 206 pages • Hardcover

A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts

Debate as Global Pedagogy: Rwanda Rising

Mary J. Eberhardinger

Ben Voth

A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts synthesizes a scope of rhetorical and philosophical perspectives of the gift.

Eberhardinger asks “What is the relationship between gifts and rhetoric?” She contextualizes the question throughout a review of related literature, analysis, examples, and personal anecd...

Debate as Global Pedagogy: Rwanda Rising illustrates that the teaching of debate offers an ideal educational approach for the prevention and remediation of genocide.

As the antithesis of propaganda, debate and argument instruction promotes the critical thinking necessary to resist processes of propa...

9781793629371 Lexington Books Pub Date: 18/03/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 276 pages • Hardcover

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea

Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and

Hojeong Lee, Joong-Hwan Oh, Asraful Alam, William L. Benoit, Dong-Hyun Byun, Wen Hong, Min-hua Huang, Sungwook Hwang, Yeon Kyoung Joo, Yunjeong Joo, Najin Jun

Tetyana Lokot

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements in Korea such as political participation based...

Augmented Dissent

This book examines how citizens use digital social media to engage in public discontent and offers a critical examination of the hybrid reality of protest where bodies, spaces and technologies resonate. It argues that the augmented reality of protest goes beyond the bodies, the tents, and the cobble...

9781786605962 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub Date: 17/03/2021 £85.00 GBP/€105.00 EUR 160 pages • Hardcover

Media and Public Relations Research in Post-Socialist Societies

Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers

Maureen C. Minielli, Marta N. Lukacovic, Sergei A. Samoilenko, Michael R. Finch, Deborrah Uecker, Bagila Akhatova, Tomasz Anusiewicz, Domagoj Bebic, Igor Daniš, Denis Dunas, Monika Durechová

Brandi Watkins, Kelli S. Burns, JoAnna Boudreaux, Nancy J. Curtin, Karen Freberg, Mitchell Friedman, Elizabeth B. Jones, Carolyn Kim, Nicole M. Lee, Corey Jay Liberman, Vimviriya Limkangvanmongkol

Media and Public Relations Research in Post-Socialist Societies tracks the birth, development, and contemporary expansion of communication research, with a focus on public relations and media research in post-socialist societies. This collection illuminates the current state of media and communicati...

9781793613646 Lexington Books Pub Date: 15/03/2021 £81.00 GBP/€98.00 EUR 248 pages • Hardcover

Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers argues that the brands that find the most success on social media are the ones that acknowledge the real key to social media marketing—it’s all about the followers. This collection, edited by Brandi Watkins, explores how social me...

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