Books in the Critical Cultural Communication series

Discusses what happens when the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something

Investigating the cultural and political history of US Spanish-language broadcasts throughout the twentieth century, this book reveals how these changes have helped Spanish-language radio secure its dominance in the major US radio markets.

Aims to provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of management within the entertainment industries. This book traces the changing roles of management both historically and in the contemporary moment within US and international contexts, and across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media.

Using examples from both mainstream and niche media - from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media, this book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America.

Aims to provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of management within the entertainment industries. This book traces the changing roles of management both historically and in the contemporary moment within US and international contexts, and across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media.

Explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young women to participate in and create culture, allowing them to perform a modern, rural-urban identity.

Argues that brands are about culture as much as they are about economics

Intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward

Re-assesses the myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding of the Nazi genocide as well as totalitarianism's broader, constitutive, and recurrent features

Explores the globalization of African American television and the way in which foreign markets, programming strategies, and viewer preferences have influenced portrayals of African Americans on the small screen.

Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. The author illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology.

Discusses what happens when the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something

Explores ideas of race and culture through the lens of contemporary media and cultural commentary

Explores globalized ideas of gendered constructions and contradictions though the transnational media

Looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. This book demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention.

Traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions.

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another-commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. This book focuses on the politics of developing and deploying these technologies.

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. This book investigates the context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotion and technology themselves.

Argues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class

After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the US media. This book examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of the enemy during the War on Terror.