This book demonstrates how the best companies use the creative application of research, done up front, to produce the big ideas with significant impact on…

This book analyzes the methods, effects, and mechanisms by which international relations reach the US citizen. Deftly dissecting the interrelationships of national identity formation, corporate…

In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink revitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding…

The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this…

Communication Yearbook 31 continues the tradition of publishing rich, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews. This volume offers insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the…

Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to…

Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within…