Cultural Studies News & Updates

Recent Articles

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   Promotional Culture and Convergence

   The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment culture has created consumers who are seeking out their own information to guide their purchasing decisions. Promotional Culture and Convergence analyses the environments necessary for creating a culture of collaboration with consumers, and critically engages with key areas of contemporary promotional development.

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   Manga’s Cultural Crossroads

   'This is a timely collection that explores a burgeoning area of enquiry in an interesting and original manner. The chapters address a range of relevant topics for anyone interested in the study and history of manga, as well as addressing the adaptation of manga in different media.' - Matthew Green, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
    

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   My New Gender Workbook - Best Summer Books 2013

   A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition
   
   By Kate Bornstein

   My New Gender Workbook has been named by Publishers Weekly as one of the ‘Best Summer Books 2013’.

   Read the review...

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   Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

   Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.
   
   "In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption,  "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

   Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.
    

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   Have you seen our online Publishing catalog?

   Our new catalog dedicated to our publishing titles is now available online.
   
   The catalog showcases favourites such as Inside Book Publishing, Publishing Law and Selling Rights, plus recently published and upcoming titles such as Book Production, An Introduction to Book History, The Book Publishing Industry and Inside Journals Publishing.

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   The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

   Do you need a guide to the methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising?
   
   Look no further than The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, which provides an essential guide to these key issues!

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   2013 Media and Communication Catalogs Now Available

   We have updated our Media and Communication catalogs to showcase our new and key titles for 2013!
   
   We have two new catalogs, our general Media and Communication catalog and our Media and Communication Research catalog.

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   My New Gender Workbook - Second Edition Now Available

   Would you like a step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity?

   Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

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   The Mediatization of Culture and Society

   Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.

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    Print Culture

    From Steam Press to Ebook
    
    By Frances Robertson

    With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan.
    
    Learn more...