Applies the recent return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this ...

Girls and computer games—and the movement to overcome the stereotyping that dominates the toy aisles. Many parents worry about the influence of video games on their children's ...

A cultural history of media that were "new media" in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Essays on the promise and dangers of the Internet for democracy.

The book covers all aspects of teaching Web design, from optimal class size and classroom configuration to peer review of completed projects. It uses many examples from the Web ...

This collection of essays continues Barrett's investigations into implementing networked online systems described in his first book Text, ConText, and HyperText, with a more ...

On multimedia technology

Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A classic study on the dynamic between an ...

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video) Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged ...