INFORMATION, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES

 

Anthem Press’s cutting-edge books on information, media and communication studies investigate the far-reaching effects of media and technological advancements in both scholarly and popular culture.


Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age

Investigating the global impact of technology and computing on knowledge and society.


Anthem Publishing Studies 

Offering high-quality research monographs, imaginative and innovative textbooks, and ‘intellectual’ trade titles that explore publishing and the book trade at large.


Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies

Advancing the understanding of the continuously changing global media and communication environment.


Anthem Studies in Popular Culture

Analysing the many aspects of global popular culture, from entertainment studies, to material culture studies, to the theories and methods of popular culture studies.

  1. Memory Machines
     
    The Evolution of Hypertext
    Belinda Barnet

    This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.

    PRICE:  £60.00  /  $99.00
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    Hardback | July 2013 | ISBN 9780857280602

  2. Angus & Robertson and the British Trade in Australian Books, 1930–1970
     
    The Getting of Bookselling Wisdom
    Jason D. Ensor

    This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930–1970.

    PRICE:  £60.00  /  $99.00
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    Hardback | December 2012 | ISBN 9780857285669

  3. From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives
     
    Motherhood and Popular Television
    Rebecca Feasey

    ‘Motherhood and Popular Television’ is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.

    PRICE:  £24.99  /  $39.00
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    Paperback | November 2012 | ISBN 9780857285614

  4. Knowledge Governance
     
    Reasserting the Public Interest
    Edited by Leonardo Burlamaqui, Ana Célia Castro and Rainer Kattel, with a Foreword by Richard Nelson

    In order to move beyond the international intellectual property rights regime in both theory and practice, this volume offers the novel approach of “knowledge governance” as a way to understand the role of knowledge in growth and development.

    PRICE:  £60.00  /  $99.00
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    Hardback | October 2012 | ISBN 9780857285355

  5. Perceptions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
     
    A Bibliography
    By E. M. Palmegiano

    Perceptions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
    PRICE:  £80.00  /  $130.00
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    Hardback | February 2012 | ISBN 9780857284396

  6. Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
     
    Frank Hurley’s Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
    Robert Dixon

    Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley became an international celebrity through his reporting of the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, the First and Second World Wars, the England-Australia air race of 1919, and his own expeditions to Papua in the 1920s. This volume is an account of his stage and screen practice in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.

    PRICE:  £60.00  /  $99.00
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    Hardback | January 2012 | ISBN 9780857287953

  7. South Asian Media Cultures
     
    Audiences, Representations, Contexts
    Edited by Shakuntala Banaji

    'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.

    PRICE:  £25.00  /  $40.00
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    Paperback | October 2011 | ISBN 9780857284099

  8. Bollywood and Globalization
     
    Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
    Edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

    This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.

    PRICE:  £25.00  /  $40.00
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    Paperback | June 2011 | ISBN 9780857287823

  9. A Blogger's Manifesto
     
    Free Speech and Censorship in a Digital World
    Erik Ringmar

    An expansive and captivating interrogation of free speech in the modern world, exploring the limitations of the digital age.

    PRICE:  £8.99  /  $14.99
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    Paperback | October 2007 | ISBN 9781843312888