Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
About the Book Series
The planet is being transformed by technical change and in particular by the speed of development in information technology. This series brings together the latest research on the social impact of IT and seeks to provide a broad range of case studies and comparative analysis of this phenomena and how it is changing our lives.
The Politics and Policies of Big Data: Big Data, Big Brother?
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Ingrid Schneider, Nicola Green
January 14, 2020
Big Data, gathered together and re-analysed, can be used to form endless variations of our persons - so-called ‘data doubles’. Whilst never a precise portrayal of who we are, they unarguably contain glimpses of details about us that, when deployed into various routines (such as management, policing...
Global Youth in Digital Trajectories
1st Edition
Edited
By Michalis Kontopodis, Christos Varvantakis, Christoph Wulf
December 12, 2019
Global Youth in Digital Trajectories explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective. Representing an innovative contribution to virtual research methods, this book presents research carried out in areas as diverse as Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil,...
Frontiers in New Media Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Francis L. F. Lee, Louis Leung, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Donna S.C. Chu
February 12, 2018
This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, ...
Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media
1st Edition
By Sebastian Sevignani
March 02, 2016
Grounded in qualitative empirical research about social media users' attitudes towards privacy and surveillance issues, this book contributes to a critical theory of information capitalism by exploring the commodification of privacy and personal data, providing a critical framing of the ongoing ...
Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
1st Edition
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By Daniel Trottier, Christian Fuchs
January 27, 2015
This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism...
Is There a Home in Cyberspace?: The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities
1st Edition
By Heike Mónika Greschke
April 09, 2014
How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic ...
A Normative Theory of the Information Society
1st Edition
By Alistair S. Duff
September 20, 2013
There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based ...
Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies
1st Edition
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By Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, Jane Vincent
September 20, 2013
Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and ...
Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self
1st Edition
By Fengshu Liu
June 24, 2013
Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the ...
Network Governance of Global Religions: Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca
1st Edition
By Michel S. Laguerre
May 23, 2013
This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions—Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islam—have used to lead and manage the worldwide distribution of their local nodes, exploring the connection between network ...
Information Society Studies
1st Edition
By Alistair S. Duff
May 03, 2013
We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information ...
Information Technology in Government: Britain and America
1st Edition
By Helen Margetts
October 12, 2012
This book situates information technology at the centre of public policy and management. IT is now a vital part of any government organisation, opening new policy windows and enabling a vast range of tasks to be carried out faster and more efficiently. But it has also introduced new problems and ...