Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of
modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in …

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative
politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies …

An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians;
what politicians actually do on'the backstage'in political organizations. The book offers …

This article demonstrates and critiques the coronavirus' cultural agency, which thanks to this
human assistance, worked in synergy with its biological form. Looking at the virus as an …

This paper applies the notions of impoliteness and shameless normalisation to potentially
impolite behaviours produced by Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in official press …

Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It
examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the …

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the
contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and …

Political Campaign Communication: Inside and Out examines the ins and outs of political
campaigning through the eyes of both an academic and a political consultant. This text takes …

This chapter focuses on the main analytical concepts used to study audiences in journalism
and how they can be refined and extended by amplifying the field of journalism studies with …

Conservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a
liberal bias. A quick review of the humor landscape shows that there are very few …