Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture
AI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan-Noël Thon, Lukas R.A. Wilde
September 08, 2025
This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining in-depth theoretical reflection with a diverse selection of case studies, its authors explore the aesthetic forms of AI-generated medial objects as well the cultural ...
Cypherpunk Ethics: Radical Ethics for the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Patrick D. Anderson
May 27, 2024
Cypherpunk Ethics explores the moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that advocates the use of strong digital cryptography—or crypto, for short—to defend individual privacy and promote institutional transparency in the digital age. Focusing on the writings of Timothy May and Julian ...
Esports and the Media: Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Angel Torres-Toukoumidis
May 27, 2024
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world. Chapters offer a coherent response to the following ...
Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge
1st Edition
By Eran Fisher
January 29, 2024
In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity. Over the past few decades, as the instrumentalization of algorithms has created knowledge that informs our decisions, preferences, tastes, and ...
TikTok Cultures in the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Trevor Boffone
January 29, 2024
TikTok Cultures in the United States examines the role of TikTok in US popular culture, paying close attention to the app’s growing body of subcultures. Featuring an array of scholars from varied disciplines and backgrounds, this book uses TikTok (sub)cultures as a point of departure from which to ...
Understanding Reddit
1st Edition
By Elliot T. Panek
January 29, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century. The book inspires new ways of thinking about Reddit, considering it from multiple perspectives: through a historical lens, as a site where identity is...
Playlisting: Collecting Music, Remediated
1st Edition
By Onur Sesigür
May 31, 2023
This book examines the collection and curation of music, and the way digital streaming services are transforming the way we engage with the media. The study foregrounds personal digital curation techniques, rather than algorithms or technology, to acknowledge the sustaining human agency involved ...