Digital Studies
About the Book Series
The Digital Studies book series aims to provide a space for social and cultural research with and about the digital. In particular, it focuses on ambitious and experimental works which explore and critically engage with the roles of digital data, methods, devices and infrastructures in collective life as well as the issues, challenges and troubles that accompany them.
The series invites proposals for monographs and edited collections which attend to the dynamics, politics, economics and social lives of digital technologies and techniques, informed by and in conversation with fields such as science and technology studies and new media studies.
The series welcomes works which conceptualize, rethink and/or intervene around digitally mediated practices and cultures. It is open to a range of contributions including thoughtful interpretive work, analytical artefacts, creative code, speculative design and/or inventive repurposing of digital objects and methods of the medium.
African Digital Cultures: Platforms, Publics, and Infrastructures
1st Edition
Edited
By James Yeku, Leah Junck
June 15, 2026
Analyzing the innovative and popular uses of digital media technologies across many African countries, African Digital Cultures reveals how digitization, through its inherent computational and epistemological logics, is deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people, producing new ...
Transgressive Tech: The Privatization of the Public Interest
1st Edition
Edited
By Linnet Taylor, Aaron Martin, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Joan Lopez Solano, Ouejdane Sabbah, Franklyn Ohai
May 20, 2026
This collection of essays, written by authors from diverse countries across four continents, explores the similarities and differences in technological expansionism. It examines how technology companies establish themselves in new markets and sectors, and charts how technology projects increasingly...
Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Juliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, Hendrik Heuer
January 10, 2026
Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound ...
Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Payal Arora, Usha Raman, René König
January 10, 2026
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of those at the far end of the value chain, who participate on and off platforms, often in the shadows, invisible to policymakers, designers, and consumers....
The Platformisation of Consumer Culture: A Digital Methods Guide
1st Edition
By Alessandro Caliandro, Alessandro Gandini, Lucia Bainotti, Guido Anselmi
January 09, 2026
This book offers a unique methodological guide for social and marketing scholars interested in understanding and using digital methods to explore the processes of platformisation of consumer culture unfolding on digital media. The book introduces the reader to key digital methods concepts, ...
Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values
1st Edition
Edited
By José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, Fernando van der Vlist
May 20, 2025
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, and widening inequalities have prompted a critical and urgent debate: Can ...
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray
March 23, 2021
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader ...