Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture
Societies at an AI Crossroads: Choices and Value Conflicts
1st Edition
By Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokienė
November 10, 2025
This book highlights some of the crucial crossroads – moments in which choices as to the future relationship between humans and digital technologies have to be made – that societies face in light of the growing development and adoption of AI. As contemporary societies undergo profound ...
AI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan-Noël Thon, Lukas R.A. Wilde
September 09, 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 as 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
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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
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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 ...
Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy: Intellectual Property and Labor Under Neoliberal Restructuring
1st Edition
By Gavin Mueller
September 30, 2021
This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy – the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws – to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet. The author explores media ...
Mobilizing the U.S. Latinx Vote: Media, Identity, and Politics
1st Edition
By Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez
September 30, 2021
This book examines the politics involved in the mobilization of the Latinx vote in America. Delving into the questions of race and identity formation in conjunction with the role of communication media, the author discusses the implications for Latinx voters and their place in the American ...
The Serial Podcast and Storytelling in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Ellen McCracken
December 10, 2019
This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory. Contributors focus on topics such as the ethics of the use of fiction techniques in investigative journalism, the epistemological overlay of postmodern ...