List of Books to Review
LIST UPDATED 08/30/2022
Here you will find books about journalism and mediated communication published from 2021, along with a running list for 2022.
We regularly add to this list on the editorial side; however, we also welcome your input. If you have recently published a book and do not see it on the list, or if you know of a book that is not on this list that would be good to review in JMCQ, please pass that information to me at jmcqreviews@appstate.edu
Please contact me if you would like to review for the journal. And remember, we welcome theme-oriented reviews of two or more books.
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BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2022
2020 Press Conference Records of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the People’s Republic of China. Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China. Singapore: Springer, 2022. 420 pp. $169.99.
Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change. Nick Axel, et al., editors. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 271 pp. $30.00.
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the ‘70s & ‘80s. Michael Gingold. Cleveland, OH: 1984 Publishing, 2021. 367 pp. $37.95.
Adapting Television Drama: Theory and Industry. Christopher Hogg. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 263 pp. $60.00.
Advanced Introduction to Advertising. Patrick De Pelsmacker. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. 166 pp. $24.95.
Analysing Representations of Social Media in European News Media Discourse. Christine Develotte, et al. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 296 pp. $165.00.
Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy. Marjut Johansson, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 374 pp. $169.99.
Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan. Stevie Suan. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 372 pp. $30.00.
Argumentative Writing in a Second Language: Perspectives on Research and Pedagogy. Alan Hirvela and Diane Belcher, editors. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 269 pp. $29.95.
Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer, editors. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2022. 324 pp. $55.00.
Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation. Steven A. Benko, editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 342 pp. $120.00.
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror. Victoria McCollum and Aislínn Clarke, editors. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2022. 243 pp. $100.00.
Broadcast News in the Digital Age: A Guide to Reporting, Producing and Anchoring Online and on TV. Faith Sidlow and Kim Stephens. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 358 pp. $42.95.
Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis. Eve Ng. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 153 pp. $49.99.
Chick TV: Antiheroines & Time Unbound. Yael Levy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022. 179 pp. $24.95.
Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Monique Lewis, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 395 pp. $159.99.
Communication Studies in Pandemic: The Panorama of Turkey. Zekiye Tamer Gencer, editor. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2021. 215 pp. $56.95.
Computational Analysis of Communication. Wouter van Atteveldt, Damian Trilling, and Carlos Arcila Calderon. Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.
Computational Analysis of Storylines: Making Sense of Events. Tommaso Caselli, et al., editors. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 260 pp. $70.00.
Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media. Vanessa Joosen, editor. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 256 pp. $30.00.
COVID-19, Racism and Politicization: Media in the Midst of a Pandemic. Kalinga Seneviratne and Sundeep R. Muppidi, editors. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. 223 pp. $99.95.
Cyberhate in the Context of Migrations. Angeliki Monnier, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 232 pp. $149.99.
Digital Citizenship in China: Everyday Online Practices of Chinese Young People. Jun Fu. Singapore: Springer, 2021. 167 pp. $119.99.
Digital Humour in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South. Shepherd Mpofu, editor. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 350 pp. $159.99.
Digital Media and Participatory Cultures of Health and Illness. Stefania Vicari. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2022. 161 pp. $160.00.
Digital Reality: The Body and Digital Technologies. Melanie Chan. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 195 pp. $39.95.
Disinformation in the Global South. Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales (Eds.). Wiley, 2022.
Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era. Donald A. Barclay. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 283 pp. $30.00.
Disrupting Sports Journalism. Simon McEnnis. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2022. 124 pp. $59.95.
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error. Michael Davidson. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2022. 231 pp. $89.00.
Ecology Documentaries: Their Function and Value Seen Through the Lens of Doughnut Economics. Susan Hayward. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 185 pp. $44.95.
Election Politics and the Mass Press in Long Edwardian Britain. Christopher Shoop-Worrall. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 116 pp. $59.95.
Entrepreneurial Journalism in Greater China and Southeast Asia: Case Studies and Tools for Media Professionals. Judith Clarke. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 219 pp. $42.95.
Essential Writing, Communication and Narrative Skills for Medical Scientists Before and After the COVID Era. Gian Carlo Di Renzo, editor. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022. 161 pp. $159.99.
Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom. Abby S. Waysdorf. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2021.191 pp. $39.95.
Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook. Andrew E. Stoner. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 223 pp. $99.00.
Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria. Noah Amir Arjomand, Cambridge University Press, 2022. (Under Review)
Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960s. Alex J. Taylor. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. 310 pp. $49.95.
Grimm’s Trailer Full of Secrets: Character and Gender in the Television Series. Rhonda V. Wilcox. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2022. 262 pp. $39.95.
Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health, Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society’s Perception of Medical Information. Hacer Aker and Mary Aiken. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. 436 pp. $275.00.
Hanna-Barbera: A History. Jared Bahir Browsh. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2022. 299 pp. $39.95.
Holy Hype: A Guide to Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News. Susan H. Sarapin and Pamela L. Morris. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 251 pp. $100.00.
Homeless Voices: Stigma, Space, and Social Media. Mary L. Schuster. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 255 pp. $100.00.
How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech. Jennifer Petersen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $27.95.
How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection: Using Psychology to Optimize Healthcare Interactions. Christine J. Ko. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 296 pp. $29.95.
Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You,. Christopher Hadnagy. New York, NY: Harper Business, 2021. 272 pp. $32.50.
I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue. Jamie Baron and Kristen Fuhs, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. 100 pp. $25.00.
Image, Art and Virtuality: Towards an Aesthetics of Relation. Robert Diodato. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021. 94 pp. $109.99.
In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality. Elizabeth Ellcessor. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2022. 205 pp. $28.00.
Information and Democracy: Public Policy in the News. Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Mel Laracey. The University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives, and Challenges. Simi Malhotra, et al., editors. Singapore: Springer, 2021. 142 pp. $139.00.
Innovations of China’s Mainstream Media Convergence. Peng Duan. Singapore, Singapore: Springer, 2022. 156 pp. $109.99.
Interactive Documentary: Decolonizing Practice-Based Research. Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 238 pp. $44.95.
It’s Better to Bite Your Tongue Than Eat Your Words: The No-Regrets Guide to Better Conversations. Dr. Mike Bechtle. Grand Rapids: MI: Revell, 2022. 205 pp. $16.99.
Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics: Modern Idioms and Where They Come From. Gareth Carrol. Alresford, Hampshire: iff Books, 2021. 159 pp. $17.95.
Knowing Asia, Being Asian: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Bengali Periodicals, 1860-1940. Sarvani Gooptu. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 234 pp. $160.00.
Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists. N.J. Enfield. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 298 pp. $32.95.
Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System. Izabel Magalhães, et al. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 288 pp. $110.00.
Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literary. Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 222 pp. $160.00.
LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective. Paromita Pain, editor. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 278 pp. $160.00.
Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918. Alison Hedley. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 229 pp. $85.00.
McLuhan in Reverse: His General Theory of Media (GToM). Robert K. Logan. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2021. 144 pp. $114.95.
Media and the Affective Life of Slavery. Allison Page. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 186 pp. $26.00.
Medical Analogies for Clinician-Patient Communication: Innovative Strategies for Improving the Clinical Encounter. Muhammad Azaan Khan, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022. 177 pp. $59.99.
Metaphor in Economics and Specialised Discourse. José Mateo and Francisco Yus, editors. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2021. 360 pp. $82.95.
Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse? Jonathan Charteris-Black. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 301 pp. $34.99.
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. Angèle Christin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 251 pp. $22.95.
Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East: Lessons from Qatar and the Arabian Gulf Region in Mobile Media Content Innovation. John Pavlik, et al. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. 100 pp. $22.95.
New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project. David Goodman and Joy Elisabeth Hayes. Rutgers University Press, 2022.
New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication. Paul Hodkinson and Ranjana Das. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 145 pp. $59.99.
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet: A Short History of Disruptive Technologies, 1990-2021. Will Mari. Routledge, 2022.
Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. Andie Tucher. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022. 367 pp. $28.00.
On Black Media Philosophy. Armond R. Towns. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. 225 pp. $29.95.
Paid Attention: Innovative Advertising for a Digital World, 2nd edition. Faris Yakob. New York, NY: Kogan Page, Inc., 2021. 227 pp. $80.00.
Pervasive Healthcare: A Compendium of Critical Factors for Success. Mohammad Shahid Husain, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022. 379 pp. $139.99.
Political Advertising in the United States, 2nd edition. Erika Franklin Fowler, et al. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 182 pp. $160.00.
Political Participation on Social Media: The Lived Experience of Online Debate. Elizabeth Anne Bailey. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 217 pp. $119.99.
Power, Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse. Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 273 pp. $160.00.
Propaganda and Public Relations in Military Recruitment: Promoting Military Service in the Twentieth and Twentieth-First Centuries. Brendan Maartens and Thomas Bivins, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. 235 pp. $160.00.
Public Relations and Whistleblowing: Golden Handcuffs in Corporate Wrongdoing. Cary A. Greenwood. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 243 pp. $44.95.
Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy. Katherine Byrne and Julie Anne Taddeo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 143 pp. $95.00.
Redefining Journalism in an Age of Technological Advancements, Changing Demographics, and Social Issues. Phylis Johnson and Ian Punnett IGI Global, 2022.
Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media. Deniz Bayrakdar and Robert Burgoyne, editors. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 304 pp. $134.00.
Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology. Hopeton S. Dunn, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 381 pp. $84.99.
Reputation Management Online: America’s “Right to be Forgotten.” Ben Medeiros. Routledge, 2022.
Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia. José Alaniz. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, 2022. 247 pp. $37.95.
Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism: How Slowing Down Will Save the News. Seong Jae Min. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 140 pp. $22.95.
RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race. Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry, editors. Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2022. 307 pp. $39.95.
Secret Lives of Children in the Digital Age: Disruptive Devices and Resourceful Learners. Linda Laidlaw, et al. Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press, 2022. 149 pp. $34.95.
Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Glenn Greenwald. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2021. 227 pp. $27.95.
Sell Without Selling Out: A Guide to Success on Your Own Terms. Andy Paul. Canada: Page Two Books, Inc., 2022. 212 pp. $16.95.
Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First:10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level. Laura Tremaine. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Books, 2021. 191 pp. $25.99.
Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication. Robert W. Gehl and Sean T Lawson. MIT Press, 2022.
Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nora Loreto. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2021. 402 pp. $35.00.
Star Trek and Popular Culture: Television at the Frontier of Social and Political Change in the 1960s. George A. Gonzalez. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2021. 119 pp. $89.95.
Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life. Lisa Cron. New York, NY: Ten Speed Press, 2021. 266 pp. $16.99.
Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks: Lessons from India. Maria Touri. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 235 pp. $119.99.
Televising Religion in India: An Anthropological Reading. Manoj Kumar Das. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 236 pp. $155.00.
Television Series as Literature. Reto Winckler and Víctor Huertas-Martín, editors. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 355 pp. $149.99.
That Could Be Us: News Media, Politics, and the Necessary Conditions for Disaster Risk Reduction. Thomas Jamieson and Douglas A. Van Belle. University of Michigan Press, 2022.
The BBC: A Century on Air. David Henry. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2022. 638 pp. $38.00.
The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies. Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartłomiej Łódzki, editors. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 238 pp. $160.00.
The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation. Moritz Altenried. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump. Robert E. Gutsche (Ed.). Routledge, 2022.
The Global Foundations of Public Relations: Humanism, China, and the West. Robert E. Brown, Burton St. John III, and Jenny Zhengye Hou. (Routledge (pub. 2021, CY 2022)
The Institutions Changing Journalism: Barbarians Inside the Gate. Edited by Patrick Ferrucci & Scott Eldridge II. Routledge. (Under Review)
The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth. Andrew J. Kunka. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 177 pp. $29.95.
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees. Matthieu Aikins. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. 325 pp. $27.99.
The New Generation in Chinese Animation. Shaopeng Chen. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 286 pp. $115.00.
The New Laws of Love: Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy. Marie Bergstrőm. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2022. 196 pp. $64.95.
The Nickelodeon ‘90s: Cartoons, Game Shows and a Whole Bunch of Slime. Chris Morgan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2021. 248 pp. $29.95.
The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Communication, and Perilous Persuasion. Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone. Ian Hutchby. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 187 pp. $95.00.
The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter. Oxford University Press, 2022. (Under Review)
The Spectacle of Criminal Justice: Mass Media and the Criminal Trial. Rosie Smith. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022. 144 pp. $95.00.
The U.S.–China Trade War: Global News Framing and Public Opinion in the Digital Age. Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat. Michigan State University Press, 2022. (Currently under review)
The Values of Public Service Media in the Internet Society. Miguel Túñez-López, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 335 pp. $99.99.
Theology and Game of Thrones. Matthew Brake, editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022. 332 pp. $120.00.
Total Journalism: Models, Techniques and Challenges. Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, et al., editors. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022. 285 pp. $159.99. (Under Review)
Transmedia Change: Pedagogy and Practice for Socially-Concerned Transmedia Stories. Kevin Moloney, editor. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 250 pp. $160.00.
Turn on the Words! Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access. Harry G. Lang. Washington D.C: Gallaudet University Press, 2021. 311 pp. $34.95.
Twitter: A Biography. Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2022. 140 pp. $13.95.
Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media: The Construction of Social Order. Sebahattin Ziyanak, editor. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2022. 118 pp. $70.00.
Understanding Pope Francis: Message, Media, and Audience. Joseph R. Blaney, editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 229 pp. $100.00.
UX Research Methods for Media and Communication Studies: An Introduction to Contemporary Qualitative Methods. Angela M. Cirucci and Urszula M. Pruchniewska. Routledge, 2022.
Very Funny Ladies: New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. Liza Donnelly. Guilford, CT: Prometheus Books, 2021. 228 pp. $31.95.
Visual Sociology: Practices and Politics in Contested Spaces. Dennis Zuev and Gary Bratchford. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 159 pp. $69.99.
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China. David Craig, et al. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 197 pp. $74.99.
War Without Bodies: Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War. Martin A. Danahay. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 140 pp. $24.95.
Who Let Them In? Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism. Joanne Lannin. Rowman & Littlefield. 2022. (Under Review)
Within Tweeting Distance: How States Use Twitter Diplomacy. Noor Suwwan. Washington, DC: Academia Press, 2022. 141 pp. $99.95.
Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television. Julia Havas. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2022. 269 pp. $34.99.
Women and the Media in Jordan: Gender, Power, Resistance. Ebtihal Mahadeen. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 150 pp. $59.99.
Working Misunderstandings: An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India. Frauke Mőrike. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022. 315 pp. $55.00.
Yesterday’s News: The Future of Long-Form Journalism and Archives. Marco Braghieri. New York, NY: Peter Lang Group AG, 2021. 229 pp. $60.95.
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2021
The 2020 Presidential Campaign: A Communications Perspective. Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Ed.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication and Culture. Julia M. Hildebrand. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Against the Klan: A Newspaper Publisher in South Louisiana During the 1960s. Lou Major. LSU Press, 2021. (Currently under review)
All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics are Transforming the Work of Journalists. Caitlin Petre. Princeton University Press, 2021. (Currently under review)
Alt-Right Movement: Dissecting Racism, Patriarchy and Anti-immigrant Xenophobia. Ipsita Chatterjee. Sage, 2021. (REVIEWED)
American Propaganda from the Spanish-American War to Iraq: War Stories. Stephen R. Brydon. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Apps: From Mobile Phones to Digital Lives. Gerard Goggin. Polity, 2021.
Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production: Critical Perspectives on Digital Platforms. Dal Yong Jin. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Audionarratology: Lessons From Radio Drama. Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf (Eds.). The Ohio State University Press, 2021.
Barry Goldwater, Distrust in Media, and Conservative Identity: The Perception of Liberal Bias in the News. Rich Shumate. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria. Scott Krzych. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Beyond Fake News: Finding the Truth in a World of Misinformation. Justin P. McBrayer. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective. Claudia Mellado (Ed.). Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing. John B. Thompson. Polity, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Breaking into the Media–A Journalist’s Guide to Publicity. Sandra Coffey. Self-published, 2021.
Campaigning in the Aftermath of the 2020 Elections: A Communications Perspective. Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Ed.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Caricature and National Character: The United States at War. Christopher J. Gilbert. Penn State University Press, 2021.
Chinese News Discourse: From Perspectives of Communication, Linguistics and Pedagogy. Nancy Xiuzhi Liu, Candace Veecock, and Shixin Ivy Zhang (Eds.). Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes To The Movies. Rashna Wadia Richards. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time. Henrik Bødker and Hanna E. Morris. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington. Donald A. Ritchie. Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy. W. Lance Bennett. Polity, 2021.
Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 Pandemic. H. Dan O-Hair and Mary John O’Hair. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Community Building and Early Public Relations: Pioneer Women’s Role on and After the Oregon Trail. Donnalyn Pompper. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems: The Case of Southeast Europe. Zrinjka Peruško, Dina Vozab, and Antonija Čuvalo. Routledge, 2021.
Conservative Political Communication: How Right-Wing Media and Messaging (Re)Made American Politics. Sharon Jarvis (Ed.). Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. Jonathan Rauch. Brookings Institution Press, 2021.
Convergent Journalism: Chinese Approaches. Woody Bing Liu. Routledge, 2021.
Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press. Anna Islentyeva. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Covering the Border War: How the News Media Creates Crime, Race, Nation, and the USA-Mexico Divide. Sang Hea Kil. Rowman & Littlefield (CY 2019; paperback released 2021).
COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives. John C. Pollock and Douglas A. Vakoch (Eds.). Routledge (CY 2022; released 2021).
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment. Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (Eds.). NYU Press, 2021. (Currently under review)
The Crisis of the Institutional Press. Stephen D. Reese. Polity, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Cultural Texts of Resistance in Zimbabwe: Music, Memes, and Media. Rodwell Makombe. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Cultural Work of Community Radio. Katie Moylan. Rowman & Littlefield (CY 2019; released in paperback in 2021)
Curating Culture: How Twentieth-Century Magazines Influenced America. Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin and Charles Whitaker. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Dark Side of News Fixing: The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Syed Irfan Ashraf. Anthem Press, 2021.
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice. Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray (Eds.). Amsterdam University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media. Michael Rosino. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life After the Turing Test. Simone Natale. Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments. Jennifer Forestal. Oxford University Press, 2021.
The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities. Ellen Helsper. Sage, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis. Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell. The Ohio State University Press, 2021.
The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Digital Web. Sangeet Kumar. Indiana University Press, 2021.
Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy. Maren Beaufort. Routledge, 2021.
Digital Strategies: Data-Driven Public Relations, Marketing, and Advertising. Regina Luttrell, Susan Emerick, and Adrienne Wallace. Oxford University Press, 2021.
The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value. Seb Franklin. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media. Michael S. Jeffress. Routledge (CY2022, released, 2021).
Disinformation and Fake News. Shashi Jayakumar, Benjamin Ang, and Dinayah Nur Kumar (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste. Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2021.
Elite Cohesion in Mediatized Politics: A European Perspective. Eva Mayerhoffer. Rowman & Littlefield (CY 2018; released in paperback in 2021)
Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India. Priti Joshi. SUNY Press, 2021.
Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production. Guobin Yang and Wei Wang (Eds.). Michigan State University Press, 2021.
Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System. Luci Marzola. Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Ethical Journalism: Adopting the Ethics of Care. Joe Mathewson. Routledge, 2021.
Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Anna Gladkova and Sadia Jamil (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of Exceptionalism. James Gilmore and Charles Rowling. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. (Currently under review)
Facebook. Taina Bucher. Polity, 2021.
Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age. Roderick P. Hart (Ed.). Routledge (CY 2022; released in 2021.
The Future of Digital Surveillance: Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose Its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI. Yong Jin Park. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
The Future of Feminism in Public Relations and Strategic Communication: A Socio-Ecological Model of Influences. Linda Aldoory and Elizabeth L. Toth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Gamification of Digital Journalism: Innovation in Journalistic Storytelling. David O. Dowling. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media. Claudia Costa Pederson. Indiana University Press, 2021.
Gender, Citizenship, and Identity in the Indian Blogosphere: Writing the Everyday. Sumana Kasturi. Routledge, 2021.
The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim our Digital Freedom. Jessa Lingel. University of California Press, 2021.
Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems. Daniela Dimitrova (Ed.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Global Media Perceptions of the United States: The Trump Effect. Yahya R. Kamalipour (Ed.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies. Erika Engstrom and Ralph Beliveau. Roman & Littlefield, 2021. (REVIEWED)
The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions, and Fabrications Radically Alter History. Ashley Rindsberg. Midnight Oil Publishing, 2021.
Hate Speech Against Women Online: Concepts and Countermeasures. Louise Richardson-Self. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism. Pallavi Guha. Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Horror Framing and the General Election: Ghouls and Ghosts in Twenty-First-Century Presidential Campaign Advertisements. Fielding Montgomery. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations. Michael Serwarnoo. Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public. Jacob L. Nelson. Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Information at War: Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern Warfare. Philip Seib. Polity, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Insurgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader. Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau (Eds.). Indiana University Press.
An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works. Daniel Graham. Columbia University Press, 2021.
Is AI Good for the Planet? Benedetta Brevini. Polity, 2021.
Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism. Jeffrey J. Hall. Routledge, 2021.
Journalism, Data and Technology in Latin America. Ramón Salaverría and Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Journalism and the Future of Democracy. Denis Muller. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
The Journalism Manifesto. Barbie Zelizer, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and C. W. Anderson. Polity, 2021.
Journalism Research in Practice: Perspectives on Changes, Challenges, and Solutions. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., and Bonnie Brennen (Eds.). Routledge, 2021, hardback released (paperback will be released in 2022)
Journalism Research That Matters. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon and Nikki Usher (Eds.). Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Journalistic Translation Research Goes Global. Roberto A. Valdeón (Ed.). Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music. Melle Jan Kromhout. Oxford University Press, 2021.
McLuhan in Reverse: His General Theory of Media (GToM). Robert K. Logan. Peter Lang, 2021.
Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives. Deepti Ganapathy. Routledge (CY 2022; released in 2021)
Media and Public Relations Research in Post-Socialist Societies. Maureen C. Minielli, Marta N. Lukovic, Sergei A. Samoilenko, and Michael R. Finch (Eds.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News. Anya Schriffrin (Ed.). Columbia University Press, 2021.
Media Freedom. Damian Tambini. Polity, 2021. (Currently Under Review)
Media Representations of African American Athletes in Cold War Japan. Yu Sasaki. Peter Lang, 2021.
Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia: Critical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas. Mickey Lee and Peichi Chung (Eds.). Bristol University Press, 2021.
Media Work, Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audio-Visual Industry. Susan Liddy and Anne O’Brien (Eds.). Routledge, 2021.
Mediated Death. Johanna Sumiala. Polity (CY 2022; released 2021). (REVIEWED)
Mediated Narration in the Digital Age: Storytelling the Media World. Peter Joseph Gloviczki. University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019. Francis Lee and Joseph Man Chan. Amsterdam University Press. 2021.
Me Too: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media. Meenakshi Gigi Durham. Polity, 2021.
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First Amendment and the Censors Dilemma. Robert Corn-Revere. Cambridge University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture. Matt Carlson, Sue Robinson, and Seth C. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2021.
News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. Nikki Usher. Columbia University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
News in their Pockets: A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia. Ran Wei and Ven-hwei Lo. Oxford University Press, 2021.
News Media Innovation Reconsidered: Ethics and Values in a Creative Reconstruction of Journalism. Maria Luengo and Susana Herrera-Damas (Eds.). Wiley, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media: Quieting the Madness. Malynnda Johnson and Christopher J. Olson (Eds.). Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Obesity in the News. Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies. Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture and Context. Sue Ellen Christian. Routledge, 2021.
Parasocial Romantic Relationships: Falling in Love with Media Figures. Riva Tukachinsky Forster. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South. Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and Admire Mare. Routledge, 2021.
The Podcaster’s Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism. Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Polarized Politics in South Korea: Political Culture and Democracy in Partisan Newspapers. Oul Han, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Pornography and Public Health. Emily F. Rothman. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Prisms of Prejudice: Mediating the Middle East from the United States. Karin Gwinn Wilkins. University of California Press, 2021.
Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet. Matthew Crain. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
PR Women with Influence: Breaking through the Ethical and Leadership Challenges. Juan Meng and Marlene S. Neill. Peter Lang, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Public Relations and Sustainable Citizenship: Representing the Unrepresented. Debashish Munshi and Priya Kurian. Routledge, 2021.
Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet. Wendy K. Z. Anderson. University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Reckoning With Social Media: Disconnection in the Age of the Techlash. Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, and Tero Karppi (Eds.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Reimagining Journalism and Social Order in a Fragmented Media World. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. and Kristy Hess (Eds.). Routledge (CY 2020; paperback will be released in 2022).
Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines. Giulia Isetti, Elisa Innerhofer, Harald Pechlaner, and Michael de Rachewiltz (Eds.). Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age. David Sisto. Polity, 2021.
Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification. Robert Goldman. Temple University Press, 2021.
Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic: Deaths of Despair in America. Tiara K. Good. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse: The Path from Disaster toward Russian “Democracy.” David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer. Acedemic Studies Press, 2021.
The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism. Brian Winston and Matthew Winston. Routledge, 2021.
Reported Speech in Chinese and English Newspapers: Textual and Pragmatic Functions. Xin Bin and Gao Xiaoli. Routledge, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Reporting Immigration Conflict: Opportunities for Peace Journalism. Mariely Valentin–Llopis. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
Reporting Mental Illness in China. Guy Ramsay. Routledge, 2021.
Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music. Mark Duffett and Jon Hackett. Bloomsbury, 2021.
To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images. T. J. Thomson. Rowman & Littlefield (hardback, 2019; audiobook, 2021).
Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession. Sandra Ristovska. The MIT Press, 2021.
Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime and Punishment in Visual Media. Mary Angela Bock. Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Social Media Communication: Trends and Theories. By Zhong. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Social Media and Politics in Turkey: A Journey Through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling, and Fake News. Erkan Saka. Rowman & Littlefield (CY 2019; paperback released, 2021).
Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks. Jeffrey Layne Blevins and James Jaehoon Lee. University of Cincinnati Press, 2021.
Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe. Manlio Cinalli et al. (Eds.). Routledge, 2021.
Solutions Journalism: News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise. Bill Dodd. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Sonic Imperative: Sound in the Age of Screens. Gary C. Woodward. Independently published, 2021.
The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinex Public. Christopher Chávez. The University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Strategic Communications in Russia: Public Relations and Advertising. Katerina Tsetsura and Dean Kruckeberg (Eds.) Routledge, 2021. (Currently under review)
The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication. Nirit Weiss-Blatt. Emerald Publishing, 2021.
Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences. Ratan Kumar Roy. Routledge, 2021.
Transparency in Journalism: A Critical Appraisal of a Disruptive Norm. Michael Karlsson. Routledge (CY2022; hardback available in 2021).
Trusting the News in a Digital Age: Toward a “New” News Literacy. Jeffrey Dvorkin. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Tumblr. Katrin Tiidenberg, Crystal Abidin, Natalie Ann Hendry. Polity, 2021.
The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times. Joshua M. Scacco and Kevin Coe. Oxford University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Understanding Social Media: Extensions of Their Users. Robert K. Logan and Mira Rawadi. Peter Lang Publishing, 2021.
The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen in to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet. Joseph Turow. Yale University Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below. Fernanda Amaral. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society. Elaine J. Yuan. University of Toronto Press, 2021. (Currently under review)
The Western Press in the Crucible of the Civil War. Mary M. Cronin and Debra Reddin can Tuyll (Eds.). Peter Lang Publishing, 2021.
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Fake News? Nick Anstead. Sage, 2021.
What Journalists are Owed: How Structures, Systems and Audiences Enable News Work Today. Fred Vultee and Lee Wilkins (Eds.). Routledge (CY 2020; released 2021).
When Communication Became a Discipline. William F. Eadie. Lexington Books, 2021.
When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism: Cautionary Tales from Venezuela’s Recent History. Ezequiel Korin and Paromita Pain (Eds.). Routledge, 2021.
Writings on Media: History of the Present. (Writings of Stuart Hall) Charlotte Brunsdon (Ed.). Duke University Press, 2021.
You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. Elizabeth Becker. Public Affairs, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Your Computer is on Fire. Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip (Eds.). The MIT Press, 2021. (REVIEWED)
Youth on Screen: Representing Young People in Film and Television. David Buckingham. Polity, 2021.
Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America. Edited by Kathy Forde and Sid Bedingfield. University of Illinois Press.