Medioznawstwo

This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public de …

’If it bleeds, it leads.’ The phrase captures television news directors’ famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true fo …

Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich f …

Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices t …

Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical …

Slated as 'the next big thing in tech’, augmented reality promises to take the screen out of our hands and wrap it around the world via 'smart spectacles’. As a pervasive, invisible interface between …

2022 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society Steve Ditko (1927–2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the c …

As the end of December draws near, Facebook routinely sends users a short video entitled 'Your Year on Facebook’. It lasts about a minute and brings together the images and posts that received the hi …

This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organised into three sections, the book looks at the representation of women as m …

When we talk about media and the economy, 'the economy’ is usually understood as the macro economy or GDP, while 'the media’ usually refers to television and print news, or the digital output of main …