Briggs and Burke: A Social History of the Media 2^nd Edition

"This joint work, a master-piece of compression in its first edition, lives up to the claims of its title in this, its second … This book could add great strength to media studies teaching."

Times Higher Education Supplement

In addition to the classic material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and the relationship between physical transportation and social communication, a new chapter on multimedia now extends the far-reaching scope of this book. New media technologies are treated in new depth throughout the latter sections and the book concludes with an account of the convergences associated with digital communication technology, the rise of the internet and the phenomenon of globalization.

Stanyer: Modern Political Communication

"Modern Political Communication addresses a great need in the political communication literature. While others frequently call for more scholarship that incorporates a comparative approach, this book delivers an insightful multinational analysis of political communication systems and practices. The writing is clear and clever. Perhaps the greatest strength of this volume is the author's ability to incorporate both US and European political science and communication studies. Furthermore, Stanyer possesses the unusual talent of weaving both humanistic and social scientific research into a coherent and complimentary narrative. This book deserves the attention of all who are interested in political communication."

Mitchell S. McKinney, University of Missouri

Deuze: Media Work

"Mark Deuze offers a guidebook to navigate us through the ‘mashup’ of everyday life and media content, production and consumption, globalization and the local, work and leisure, authenticity and artefact. His book is a timely corrective to the popular dream of cultural employment, and offers insight into a society characterized by instability and destabilization, speed, precariousness and a continual over spilling of the domains of work and life."

Andy C. Pratt, London School of Economics

Longhurst: Popular Music and Society 2nd Edition

"A thoughtful and systematic introduction, full of up-to-date information, this book speaks simultaneously to students of socio-musical analysis and to all of us for whom music matters."

Tia DeNora, University of Exeter

Topics covered include:

• The contemporary organisation of the music industry;
• The effects of technological change on production;
• The history and politics of popular music;
• Gender, sexuality and ethnicity;
• Subcultures;
• Fans and music celebrities.

Gill: Gender and the Media

"Brilliant – a must-read for all media educators."

Newsletter of the Media Education Association

The book looks in depth at five areas of media - talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances - to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique.

McCombs: Setting the Agenda

"Beautifully written and clearly organized, it is the definitive work on media agenda-setting by the founders of this branch of empirical research."

David Weaver, Indiana University

In addition to describing this media influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also discusses the sources of these media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and the subsequent consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviour.

Lyon: Surveillance Studies

"David Lyon’s work demands our utmost respect and admiration for its scope, balance and clarity. If one were restricted to the reliance on only one text on surveillance I would suggest without hesitation to select this book."

Ursula M. Franklin, University of Toronto

The book takes in surveillance studies in all its breadth, from local face-to-face oversight through technical developments in closed-circuit TV, radio frequency identification and biometrics to global trends that integrate surveillance systems internationally. It draws on international examples and on the insights of several disciplines; sociologists, political scientists and geographers will recognize key issues from their work here, as will people from media, culture, organization, technology and policy studies.

Chapman: Comparative Media History

“Readers will appreciate the careful incorporation of research results particularly impressive in discussions of post-1980 trends, including the impact of the Internet and globalization. The book seems best marked, however, by brilliant articulation of trends, with particular attention to their origins and trajectories, and of themes that draw readers’ thought to specific contexts of change. Beyond filling significant needs in journalism and international media history, which would make it valuable enough, the book promises to reshape thinking and become a touchstone for future research in media history. Indeed, rarely has a book come across my desk that seemed so likely to so profoundly affect scholarship in a field."

Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota