Early in 2009, Denis and I had coffee outside a little café in Padua, Italy. We were attending
a symposium organized by the European Journal of Communication on the consequences …

It's just after 7 am in Auckland, New Zealand. Media and journalism student Emily Johnson
wakes and thinks about the busy day ahead in college. Before she even gets out of bed, she …

Drawing on a synthesis of existing models of reception and findings from audience research,
this article outlines a conceptual framework for the (meta) analysis of existing and new …

This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial
publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres …

This study explored the relationship between television viewing and young females' images
of motherhood. The respondents were 166 Dutch adolescents (age 15–17) and young …

Gesellschaftstheoretisch wird in diesem Band vorgeschlagen, die Ko-Existenz
verschiedener Modernen innerhalb von Gesellschaften, va aber auch in transnationalen …

Ever since the conservative mass culture critics, in the late 1800s, articulated their negative
reactions to the related processes of industrialization, urbanization, and the emergence of …

A few of the chapters in this book are revised versions of essays published elsewhere. A
different version of Chapter 1 was published in the journal Particip@ tions, vol. 3, issue 2 …

This essay aims to find out whether globalization of the media tends to undermine national
cultures. Current arguments about the relationship between media globalization and …

The global spread of English is an inextricable part of the globalization of culture and media.
Despite this close entanglement, theories on the global spread of English have largely been …