Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a formative event for understanding citizens media use in times of crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio s -new- media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication,...

Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a formative event for understanding citizens' media use in times of crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio's new media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication,...

Encouraging students to consider the complex role that media industries play in producing discourses about sexuality, this text weaves together theory, syntheses of existing research and original analysis of contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of debate.

Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their own and others' sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together theory, synthesis of existing research, and original analysis of contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of debate, including: 　

• an historical context for contemporary GLBTQ representations;
• the advantages and limitations of media visibility, including a discussion...