Publications - Books

The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses (Peter Molnar, Michael Herz (Eds.) Cambridge University Press)

April 1, 2012

The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from around the world. All the authors explore whether or when different cultural and historical settings justify different substantive rules given that such cultural relativism can be used to justify content-based restrictions and so endanger freedom of expression.

Media/Society - Industries, Images, and Audiences (Edited by Croteau, D., W. Hoynes, and S. Milan)

November 30, 2011

CMDS Fellow Stefania Milan co-authored the fourth edition of the widely used textbook Media/Society - Industries, Images, and Audiences (SAGE). The publication, co-authored by David Croteau, William Hoynes and Stefania, provides students with a broader framework for understanding the relationship between media and society.

Lina Dencik: Media and Global Civil Society

November 11, 2011

Much analysis and hope in both academia and political rhetoric currently rests on ideas of deliberation and post-national democratic practices – the roots of a 'global civil society'. This has taken force as not just an analysis of social and political change, but as a normative project. This book, published by Palgrave has grown out of concern with how changes in media are influencing democratic function and politics in our global age.

Media, Nationalism and European Identities

June 1, 2011

In April 2011, CEU Press and the CMCS published the latest of a series of books that resulted from the collaborative research network East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda (2005-2009), coordinated by the CMCS and funded as a European COST initiative by the European Science Foundation.

Leistert, O., and T. Röhle: Generation Facebook. Über das Leben im Social Net

February 1, 2011

Facebook hat das Internet erobert. Lange als Trivialität belächelt, lässt sich die Relevanz der »sozialen Netzwerke« heute nicht mehr bestreiten. Als Umschlagplatz für soziale Beziehungen aller Art erlangt gerade der Marktführer immer größere ökonomische Macht und politische Bedeutung und nistet sich zusehends tiefer in gesellschaftliche Strukturen ein. In diesem Band kommen internationale Autorinnen und Autoren zu Wort, die erstmals eine umfassende medien- und kulturkritische Perspektive auf Facebook entwickeln. In fundierten theoretischen Beiträgen – u.a.