This is a collection bringing together leading scholars to address key questions and concerns in media and cultural studies - issues of community, geography, identity, cultural production, technology and aesthetics. As well as broad overview chapters considering phenomena such as globalization, post-modernism and post-feminism, the book will also contain case studies including the US after 9/11, media use by diasporic communities, the politics of performance labor and the impact of the internet on mass media industries.