How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.
Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber …

At the 2009 Emmy awards, host Neil Patrick Harris reprised his role as Dr. Horrible from the
three-part-musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog (iTunes, 2008). This had been written and …

The advent of subscriber-funded, direct-to-consumer, streaming video services has
important implications for video distribution around the globe. Conversations about …

What is left to say about celebrity? Well, as I hope to demonstrate in this book, quite a lot. In
particular, I have been concerned to disaggregate the customary constructions of celebrity a …

This key textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of developments in
international communication worldwide. Taking a comparative approach to the major …

In an interactive and densely connected world, transnational communication has become a
central feature of everyday life. Taking account of a variety of media formats and different …

My purpose in this paper is to complicate the genealogies of the concept of culture as a way
of life that have held sway within cultural studies. I do so by reviewing key aspects in the …

This article draws on an empirical research project on cultural consumption in order to
respond to particular concerns this project raised about our understanding of the current …

This core textbook examines the economic paradigms at work in media industries and
markets, enabling analysis of the media system as a whole. In addition to succinct accounts …

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese
dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats …