Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of digital media. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this subject as its influence and significance grow into the twenty-first century.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
[email protected]
The Inequality Regime of AI: Power, Allocation, and the Struggle for Justice
1st Edition
By Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu
July 10, 2026
Does artificial intelligence empower humanity, or does it merely automate the stratifications of the past? In The Inequality Regime of AI, the authors offer a critical sociology of artificial power, arguing that AI represents a fundamental ontological shift in how social life is organized, valued, ...
Playing Politics in Digital Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Chouraqui, Alex Gekker, Bram Ieven, Saniye Ince, Frans-Willem Korsten, Sybille Lammes, Sara Polak
February 20, 2026
Playing Politics in Digital Spaces offers a timely analysis of play and politics woven together to imagine and enact new worlds, democratic and reactionary alike. Bringing together media and philosophical insights into the concepts of play, politics and worlding (or world-making), the book ...
Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting: Family Life in Uncertain Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebekah Willett, Xinyu Zhao
December 26, 2025
This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents’ understanding of children’s media use. Drawing on interviews with 130 parents at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores specific cultural contexts across seven ...
The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions and Co-option
1st Edition
By Yanning Huang
December 26, 2025
This book offers an in- depth study of the quasi- political, self-deprecating, and parodic buzzwords and memes prevalent in Chinese online discourse. Combining discourse analysis with in- depth audience research among the young internet users who deploy these buzzwords in on- and offline contexts, ...
Virtual Influencers: Identity and Digitality in the Age of Multiple Realities
1st Edition
By Esperanza Miyake
December 26, 2025
This book identifies the converging socio- cultural, economic, and technological conditions that have shaped, informed, and realised the identity of the contemporary virtual influencer, situating them at the intersection of social media, consumer culture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital ...
Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Deirdre Flynn, Mary McGill
December 10, 2025
Irish Digital Cultures explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country and globally. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars and media studies professionals from ...
AI in Popular Culture: Precarious Creativity in the Generative AI Era
1st Edition
By Dal Yong Jin
December 08, 2025
This book examines the transformative impact of generative AI on cultural production, with a particular focus on how AI technologies like ChatGPT are reshaping the creation of popular culture. Through a comprehensive analysis of both Global North and South perspectives, the book offers ...
The Meme as the Message: Digital Culture Between Algorithm, Affect, and Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Joanna Nowotny, Julian Reidy
October 31, 2025
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of memes, covering everything from pandemic humour to far-right propaganda, from feminist memes to algorithmic censorship. Memes are far more than light entertainment - they are complex cultural artefacts that play a role in politics, in art, and in platform ...
Ghosts in the Dating App Machine: Virality, AI, Data Colonialism
1st Edition
By Gregory Narr
October 28, 2025
Ghosts in the Dating App Machine offers a critical examination of the shift to dating apps to illustrate key features of a broader shift to a mode of “data” colonialism based on datafication and AI orchestration. This book analyses 48 in-depth and mediated interviews, forums, blogs, and ...
Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth: Participatory Research as a Gateway
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Hornmoen, Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Dagny Stuedahl
July 23, 2025
Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth explores young people’s participation in digital media spaces, drawing on participatory research methods to reflect with youth on how digital media is interwoven into their daily lives. Focusing on young people’s understandings of ...
Digital Media as Ambient Therapy: The Ecological Self between Resonance and Alienation
1st Edition
By Francis Russell
June 27, 2025
Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways “mental illness” can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for “mental health” and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such ...
The Chinese Internet: Political Economy and Digital Discourse
1st Edition
By Yuqi Na
May 06, 2025
This book explores China’s digital discourse and how the Internet influences social and ideological changes to the country’s political economy, within China’s historical context and through a variety of social and political actors. Analysing discourses as diverse as policy papers, addresses from ...