This review surveys the literature on publics: political subjects that know themselves and act
by means of mass-mediated communication. It examines classic accounts of how publics …

In recent years, there has been an explosion of ambitious sociological research that
attempts to map and explain the dynamics of media understood not as technologies or …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

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 …

“Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations
and hopes of Egyptian youth... Recommended.”—Choice Against the backdrop of the …

Felix Siauw, a popular if controversial Chinese Muslim preacher, is well known for his
affiliation with the transnational Islamist movement, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), as well as …

This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in
India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new …

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern
world. It considers questions such as: do travellers leave their religion at home when they …

This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of
religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic …

Taking as a starting point the paradox that immediacy is not prior to, but rather a product of
mediation, this essay argues that the negotiation of newly available media technologies is …