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Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful

Mirca Madianou

Cambridge: Polity Press (2025), vii, 248 pp.

"With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming ever more common, AI and big data are being championed as a force for good and as a solution to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues, on the contrary, that digit ... more

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Is AI Good for the Planet?

Benedetta Brevini

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2022), vii, 128 pp.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that depletes scarce resources and by re ... more

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Controversy Mapping: A Field Guide

Tommaso Venturini, Anders Kristian Munk

Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2022), xx, 334 pp.

"Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and Munk outline the conceptual underpinnings and the many tools and techniques of controversy mappin ... more

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Love and Communication

Paddy Scannell

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), v, 125 pp.

"Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of "talk" - and ultimately the meaning of "being human." Taking an historical approach, Paddy Scannell argues that the fundamental media of communication are (and always have been) talk and writing. Far fro ... more

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Information at War: Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern Warfare

Philip Seib

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), x, 226 pp.

"In this book, Philip Seib, one of the world's leading experts on media and war, offers a probing analysis of the role of information in warfare from the Second World War to the present day and beyond. He focuses on some of the thorniest issues on the contemporary agenda: When untruthful and inflamm ... more

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Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age

Davide Sisto

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), viii, 155 pp.

"[...] The past does not really exist: it is only a story we tell ourselves. But what happens when we tell this story not only to ourselves but also to our followers, when it is recorded not only on our social media pages but also on the pages of hundreds or thousands of others, making it something ... more

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Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy

W. Lance Bennett

Cambridge; Medford: Polity Press (2021), x, 201 pp.

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Beyond Journalism

Tamara Witschge Mark Deuze

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2020), xii, 148 pp.

"Among the most significant changes affecting journalism worldwide is the emergence of startup culture, as more and more journalists strike out on their own. In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge combine extensive global and comparative fieldwork. Through rich case studies of journalism startups ... more

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How Green is Your Smartphone?

Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller

Cambridge: Polity Press (2020), 160 pp.

"Contrary to widespread claims, consumer electronics and other digital technologies are made in ways that cause some of the worst environmental disasters of our time - conflict-minerals extraction, fatal and life-threatening occupational hazards, toxic pollution of ecosystems, rising energy consumpt ... more

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The Digital Divide

Jan van Dijk

Cambridge: Polity Press (2020), vi, 184 pp.

"Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the 'digital divide' - the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without - has persisted for close to twenty-five years. In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality ... more

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Digital Media Ethics

Charles Ess

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press, 3rd ed. (2020), xviii, 333 pp.

"This third edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest research and developments, including the rise of Big Data, AI, and the Internet of Things. The book's case studies and pedagogical material have also been extensively revised and updated to include such watershed events as the ... more

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Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society

Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

Cambridge: Polity Press (2019), vii, 194 pp.

"Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to fundamentally rethink our und ... more

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YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

Jean Burgess, Joshua Green

Cambridge, UK; Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 191 pp.

"Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when YouTube was only four years old, this book was the first to systematically investigate its cultural impacts and politics, ... more

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Communication and Social Change: A Citizen Perspective

Thomas Tufte

Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2017), 256 pp.

"Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF's global outreach programs, [the author] presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers bot ... more

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Global Media Studies

Toby Miller, Marwan Kraidy

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2016), vii, 247 pp.

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The Media in Transitional Democracies

Katrin Voltmer

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2013), ix, 275 pp.

"This book provides an accessible and systematic introduction to the media in transitional democracies. It analyses the problems that occur when transforming the media into independent institutions that are able to inform citizens and hold governments to account. The book covers the following topics ... more

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Objectivity in Journalism

Steven Maras

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2013), xii, 260 pp.

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Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective

Silvio R. Waisbord

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2013), vii, 266 pp.

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Indian Media: Global Approaches

Adrian Athique

Cambridge: Polity Press (2012), v, 186 pp.

"The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian scene a prerequisite for any serious study of media in the twenty-first century. As one of the largest and most influential emerging economies in the wor ... more

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Alternative and Activist New Media

Leah A. Lievrouw

Cambridge: Polity Press (2011), ix, 294 pp.

"A rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk ... more