With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the …

This book offers both an understanding of newspaper reporting and a means for readers to
develop their own critical analysis. Using a wealth of contemporary case studies, students …

This is a critical study of the changing relationship between media and marketing
communications in the digital age. It examines the growth of content funded by brands …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society.
Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear, comprehensive and insightful …

Twitter has become a convenient, cheap and effective beat for journalists in search of news
and information. Reporters today increasingly aggregate information online and embed it in …

Massive datasets of communication are challenging traditional, human-driven approaches
to content analysis. Computational methods present enticing solutions to these problems but …

The British national newspaper award for Political Journalist of the Year waspresented in
2011 to Guardian political correspondent, Andrew Sparrow. Not for hiscontributions to the …

Two concepts that have been used to describe the changes with regards to media and
politics during the last fifty years are the concepts of mediation and mediatization. However …

Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and
society.* How much power do the media have?* Who really controls the media?* What is the …