Media / Communication

While conventional wisdom has it that humor embodies a spirit of renewal and humility, a dispirited form of comedy thrives in a media-saturated and politically charged environment. When Comedy Goes W …

Charts the myth of the “good guy with a gun, ” connecting America’s frontier beginnings with visions of the end of the world In the midst of widespread mass shootings in America, a common motif stand …

This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infr …

In Mobile City , Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging ‘knowledge’ class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-Ausländer (foreigners from other EU countries), a …

Learn the skills you need to find sources, fact check, and write trusted articles Since the advent of the internet and the birth of social media, it has become difficult to wade through the massive a …

Since the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, I have posted numerous essays and other commentaries on Facebook. They are of varying length on matters of politics, international affairs, history …

From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. This is a book about possibility and refusal in …

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of race, class, and gender to cleanse and redeem the wider nation from the implications o …

Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara Mc Pherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term ‘tra …

Exploring the influence misinformation has on public perceptions of the risk and severity of crisis events To what extent can social media networks reduce risks to the public during times of crisis? …