Media Psychology Products

By Sue Ellen Christian

In this graphic guide to media literacy, award-winning educator Sue Ellen Christian offers readers an accessible, informed and lively look at how they can consume and create media intentionally and critically. The straight-talking textbook offers timely examples and relevant activities to equip…

Paperback – 2019-10-15 
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Edited by Nathan Farrell

This edited collection brings together scholarly works of both a theoretical and empirical nature to critically analyse the forms and functions of the contemporary celebrity activist, and to examine how these intersect with the political economic structures in which celebrity activists operate.…

Hardback – 2019-08-27 
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Popular Culture and World Politics

By Lauren Wright

Are celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox on policy progress? This book identifies and measures the attributes of celebrities that make them well-equipped to win campaigns and yet poorly prepared to govern effectively. The framers of the U.S. Constitution worried about the…

Paperback – 2019-07-24
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Media and Power

Edited by Mary Beth Oliver, Arthur A. Raney, Jennings Bryant

Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments,…

Paperback – 2019-06-28
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Routledge Communication Series

By Emily Edwards

Graphic Violence provides an innovative introduction to the relationship between violence and visual media, discussing how media consumers and producers can think critically about and interact with violent visual content. It comprehensively surveys predominant theories of media violence and the…

Paperback – 2019-06-24
Routledge

By Fred W. Sanborn, Richard Jackson Harris

In a constantly changing media landscape, A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication is the go-to text for any course that examines mass communication from a psychological perspective. Now in its seventh edition, the book continues its exploration of how our experiences with media affect the way…

Paperback – 2018-12-18
Routledge

Edited by José Antonio Muñiz Velázquez, Cristina M. Pulido

The Routledge Handbook of Positive Communication forms a comprehensive reference point for cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the central role of communication in the construction of hedonic and eudemonic happiness,or subjective and psychological well-being. Including contributions from…

Hardback – 2018-12-13
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Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies

By Greg Singh

With all our contemporary connectivity, are we really connected? What does the nature of connectivity tell us about interpersonal and community relationships? What ethical concerns are raised through an always-on culture? Communication in today’s world is characterised by a condition of persistent,…

Paperback – 2018-12-10
Routledge

Edited by Meike Uhrig

Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research, computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today. Be it the portrayal of emotional characters in moving films or the creation of controllable emotional stimuli in scientific…

Hardback – 2018-10-10
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Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Edited by Ulrik Ekman, Daniela Agostinho, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel

Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties. Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render them visible increase. At the…

Hardback – 2018-09-25
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Edited by Johannes Breuer, Daniel Pietschmann, Benny Liebold, Benjamin P. Lange

Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers is the first edited volume that systematically applies evolutionary psychology to the study of the use and effects of digital games. The book is divided into four parts: Theories and Methods Emotion and Morality Social…

Hardback – 2018-09-17
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Routledge Advances in Game Studies

By Gerda Reith

In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of ‘the problems of consumption’ change over time, and asks what these changes…

Paperback – 2018-09-14
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