Books in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series

Digital Media Sport analyzes the intersecting issues of technological change, market power, and cultural practices that shape the contemporary global sports media landscape. The complexity of these related issues demands an interdisciplinary approach that is adopted here in a series of thematically organized essays by international scholars working in media studies, Internet studies, sociology, cultural studies, and sports studies.

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the essays gathered together by this collection explore the extent to which the audiobook enables us not just to hear literature but to hear it in new ways. Bringing together a set of reflections on the enrichments and impoverishments of the reading experience brought about by developments in sound technology, this collection spans the earliest adaptations of printed texts into sound by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and other novelists from the late nineteenth century to recordings by contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison and Barack Obama at the turn of the twenty-first century. As the voices gathered here suggest, it is time to give a hearing to one of the most talked about new media of the past century.

Examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action.

Features the essays that focus on the connection between issues of migration and media. This title addresses how their interconnection has become part of our understanding of the world's global cities, and the paradigms through which we think about ethnicity and nation.

Investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. This title considers the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres.

Media Reform examines the relationship between the media and the development of democracy. Detailed worldwide case studies illustrate discussions on liberalisation of media, technological developments and new trends.

This book explores television's role in fostering European cultural identity and the extent to which European public service broadcasters were able to meet the challenges posed by the introduction of new communication technologies.

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. This work offers research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation.

Using examples from a range of countries, this book illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, and how it stimulates prospective migrants to move.

An anthology of essays that study the relationship between imagination and images both material and mental. It focuses on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology.

This book seeks to provide readers with a cross-national perspective concerning the art of political communication. Contributors offer perspectives from Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy and the United States.

New Communications Landscape explores the theories of media globalization, with emphasis on the areas of cultural and local television markets. It focuses on the industry, content and strategy, audience, policy and future research.

Offers differing perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. This book examines the continual evolution of public art, from monuments and memorials to socially engaged public art practice. It contains topics including constructing new models for developing and commissioning public art works.

Argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television. This title examines the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and various media studies.

Brings together art, design, fashion, and its spatial realities. This volume explores various physical and conceptual spaces, moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional spaces of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, to chart similarities, differences, and complex nuanced relationships between environments, and fashion.

Intends to clarify Homi K Bhabha's theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is applied in practical - as well as theoretical - contexts.

This volume explores what underlies those karaoke experiences which involve people as singers, co-singers and listeners. The contributors consider the technological, spatial, communicative, ethnic, national, political, musical and gender aspects of karaoke around the world.