Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human
societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the …

Social media platforms have captured the attention and imagination of many millions of
people, enabling their users to develop and display their creativity, to empathize with others …

In recent years, with the rise of new media, the phenomenon of'multimodality'(
communication via a number of modes simultaneously) has become central to our everyday …

This chapter suggests that we abandon “language” as a category for two reasons. The first is
that meaning is never separable from multiform ensembles of text, image, space, object …

Previous studies have identified affect as constitutive of and woven into everyday life. Less
work has focused on how affect is designed and produced through consumer services and …

Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and
aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson …

This article seeks to develop an approach to independent video game production through a
synthesis of recent work in assemblage theory and critical political economy. As an …

Since 2012, North American and European civilians have regularly engaged in combat
operations against the Islamic State in the globalized and decentralized battlefields of Iraq …