Series: BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research

Fourteen essays respond to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Encountering the Plague explores ways in which humanities research can play a meaningful role in key social and political debates and provides compelling examples of how the past can inform our understanding of the present. Contributors focus on the effects of COVID-19 on everyday life, drawing also on...

An analysis of the interrelationship between media forms, format, and meaning. Media Materialities brings together a team of scholars to analyse the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning. Deploying a number of different qualitative methodologies, the contributors address three overarching concepts: form, format, and ephemeral meaning. They investigate a range of media artefacts, such as...