mediastudies.press
This page shows the latest publications (in descending order of publication date) from mediastudies.press.
Metadata is licensed as Creative Commons Zero (CC0) and is retrieved from Thoth’s open APIs.
Last updated: 2026-06-05 01:00:19
February 2026
From Erving to Goffman: A Work in Performance?
Author: Yves Winkin
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2026
https://doi.org/10.64629/3f8575cb.e3d5966c
Yves Winkin’s From Erving to Goffman, translated from the French, is an elegantly written and deeply informed account of the sociologist’s life, by one of the world’s leading Goffman scholars.
January 2026
Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal
Author: Gary Hall
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2026
https://doi.org/10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2
Defund Culture interrogates the structural inequalities embedded in Britain’s cultural institutions, arguing that meaningful transformation requires not just expanding access, but redistributing resources away from elite structures toward more pluralistic, decolonial alternatives.
October 2025
From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey
Author: Mariano Zarowsky
Translator: William Quinn
Translator: Peter Simonson
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2025
https://doi.org/10.64629/3f8575cb.08e7ds72
From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication follows Armand Mattelart’s intellectual trajectory through Cold War geopolitics and the rise of critical communication studies in Latin America and Europe.
August 2025
Mapping Goffman’s Invisible College
Author: Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2025
https://doi.org/10.64629/3f8575cb.dwb73w6d
Mapping Goffman’s Invisible College offers new insight into how academic communities take shape and how ideas move through informal networks.
December 2024
Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine: Selected Readings, 1895–1935
Editor: Patrick Parsons
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2024
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.f1e0489e
Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine: Selected Readings, 1895–1935 consists of over 30 public domain works originally publishing from the late 19th century to the mid-1930s on the concept of “suggestion”
November 2023
Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer
Author: Judith May Fathallah
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2023
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120
Killer Fandom, in the first long-form treatment, examines serial killer fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play—with close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube.
July 2023
Franklin Ford Collection
Editor: Dominique Trudel
Editor: Juliette De Maeyer
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2023
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.80aee30a
The Franklin Ford Collection, curated and introduced by Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer, includes letters, leaflets, editorials, and treatises by the American journalist Franklin Ford (1849–1918).
January 2023
Creativity: Process and Personality
Author: Larry Gross
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2023
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.60b97b6f
Creativity: Process and Personality, a 1964 thesis published for the first time, features interviews on creativity with prominent psychologists, including B. F. Skinner, Herbert Simon, Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, Jerome Bruner, and Milton Rokeach.
December 2022
Communication Conduct in an Island Community
Author: Erving Goffman
Introduction by: Yves Winkin
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af
Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, published here for the first time on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
April 2022
What Was Artificial Intelligence?
Author: Sue Curry Jansen
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523
Sue Curry Jansen’s classic critique of AI rhetoric, republished open access with a new introduction by Jansen.
July 2021
November 2020
Liberty and the News
Author: Walter Lippmann
Introduction by: Sue Curry Jansen
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2020
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.2e69e142
Published a century ago as the young Walter Lippmann’s fifth book, the slim volume merits a fresh read in our post-truth moment. Republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Sue Curry Jansen.
October 2020
Our Master’s Voice: Advertising
Author: James Rorty
Introduction by: Jefferson Pooley
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2020
https://doi.org/10.21428/3f8575cb.dbba9917
“I was an ad-man once,” James Rorty writes in this classic dissection of the advertising industry. A neglected masterpiece, the book is republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Jefferson Pooley.
Social Media & the Self: An Open Reader
Editor: Jefferson Pooley
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2021
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.1fc3f80a
A web-only reader on social media and the self, selected and ordered with university courses in mind. Each of its component works already carries an open access license, or—in the case of copyrighted items—links to a web version. With a preface and introduction by Jefferson Pooley.