Books in the Critical Cultural Communication series

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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