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Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media."

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This book develops a theory of comedy by analyzing the television situation comedy Seinfeld and demonstrating how comedy presents a comic vision of the world, one that embraces human nature and its place in the world despite all the frustrations of everyday human life.

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Essays examine how the mass media represents sexuality, gender, and identity and how it intervenes in our perception of popular culture.

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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.

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A study of Australian cinema exploring the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread - the repeated image of sheep. It focuses on two key 'sheep films': ""The Squatter's Daughter"" (Hall, 1933) and ""Bitter Springs"" (Smart, 1950).

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Based on an analysis of Irish republican media outlets and interviews with the key activists that produced them, this book provides a snap shot of a political ideology in transition as it is moulded by the forces of the peace process and often violent internal ideological schism that threatened a return to the 'bad old days' of the troubles.

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This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good Friday Agreement. -- .

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What does money really stand for How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the story of how artists have grappled with the increasing

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Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America is the first book-length study of one of the most unique communications enterprises in U.S. history.

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This volume focuses on debates and changes in small cinema industries, analyzing the impact of expansion and diversification of the cinematic product at local, regional, and global levels. Contributors use Western theoretical perspectives with a professional (mostly native) knowledge of the language, cultural realities, and film industry practices.

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This volume contains contributions from an international array of scholars and provides a global analysis of theoretical approaches to social inequalities as they relate to media and communication, including critical discussions of class and gender analyses and discourses on capitalism and communication technology.

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This volume contains contributions from an international array of scholars and provides a global analysis of theoretical approaches to social inequalities as they relate to media and communication, including critical discussions of class and gender analyses and discourses on capitalism and communication technology.

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With each major technological shift, the question of well-being arises with new purpose. In this book, leading scholars in the philosophy and communication disciplines bring together their knowledge and expertise in an attempt to define what well-being means in this perpetually connected environment.

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Demonstrates how social media is transforming political engagement in Africa using unique case studies from across the region.

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This volume will be of special interest to anyone concerned with modern applied ethical issues, particularly those in the areas of philosophy, communication, media studies, and journalism. This volume brings together leading experts in journalism, communication studies, and philosophy to discuss the value of truth in an age of social media.

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This collection posits thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication impacted by the omnipresence of social media. Contributors connect social media to gender, class, and race inequities, womens health, cyberbullying, sexting, and transgender issues both in the United States and in some developing countries.

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This collection posits thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication impacted by the omnipresence of social media. Contributors connect social media to gender, class, and race inequities, womens health, cyberbullying, sexting, and transgender issues both in the United States and in some developing countries.

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Social Media: Principles and Applications thoroughly examines social media in interpersonal, mass-mediated, educational, organizational, and political settings. Sheldon provides a must-have survival tool for communication, psychology, and social media scholars.