MediaMatters
About the Book Series
MediaMatters is an international book series on current debates about emerging and transforming cultural practices that engage with (new) media technologies. Contributions to the series critically analyse and theorise the materiality, spatiality, mobility and performativity of these practices in book projects that engage with today’s dynamic digital media culture.
MediaMatters focuses on objects and practices such as: installation art; (digital) performance; site-specific theater; time-based art; experimental film and video; digital and new media art; motion capture; telematics; looping media and digital GIFs; glitch media; cybernetics, robots and AI; virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality; screen media; interactive media, haptic/tactile media; mobile media; tactical media; ecological art and media; media architecture; new museum and exhibition practices.
Key themes are:
- situatedness and site-specificity of media, art and performance
- transformations and (re-)configurations of materials, spaces, movements, and bodies in media, art and performance
- visuality and visibility in the age of the digital interfaces
- media ecologies
- media and the environment
- participatory practices, interactive engagements, and transforming publics in contemporary screen and performance culture
- the role of media technologies in (urban) public spaces
- the materiality and performativity of digital technologies
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) if you have any questions about the series or wish to submit a book proposal.
Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Karin van Es, Nanna Verhoeff
January 10, 2026
Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result ...
The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie
1st Edition
By Jenna Ng
January 10, 2026
Screens are ubiquitous today. Yet contemporary screen media eliminate the presence of the screen and diminish the visibility of its boundaries. As the image becomes indistinguishable from the viewer’s surroundings, this unsettling prompts re.examination of how screen boundaries demarcate. Through ...
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier
January 10, 2026
Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news — social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world — even ...
Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Bonah, Anja Laukötter
January 09, 2026
Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and North America working at the intersection of film and media studies and social and cultural history of the body. The volume focuses on visual media in ...
Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship through Data
1st Edition
By Larissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink
January 09, 2026
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It ...
Hybrid Museum Experiences: Theory and Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Annika Waern, Anders Løvlie
January 09, 2026
So you're the one getting this gift? Lucky you! Someone who knows you has visited the museum. They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you., This is the welcoming message for the Gift app, designed to create a very personal museum visit....
Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital
1st Edition
By Clancy Wilmott
January 09, 2026
This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography -- and the work of Michel Foucault and ...
Screen Space Reconfigured
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Saether, Synne Tollerud Bull
December 31, 2025
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of ...
A Reader on International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Tilman Baumgärtel
December 01, 2025
Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and made a dent in the buisness of the film and software industries. From MP3 files to recipes from French...
Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology
1st Edition
By Gabriel Menotti
December 01, 2025
Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making. It delves into the underbelly of cinema in order to explore how images circulate and apparatus crystallize across different material formations. The indisciplinary experience of curators and ...
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media
1st Edition
By Dave Colangelo
December 01, 2025
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively deploys massive media -- a set of techno-social assemblages and practices that include large outdoor projections, programmable architectural façades, and urban screens -- in ...
Urban Screens: Situations, Practices, Concepts
1st Edition
By Nanna Verhoeff
December 09, 2024
This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a methodological approach and conceptual toolset for the critical examination, not only of what these screens do, but also of what we can do with them. The...