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]
Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Jakob Svensson
November 28, 2024
This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital ...
Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
November 28, 2024
This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies. Moving beyond the ...
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Rhetorics on Human Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro Ricalde
November 18, 2024
Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, sensory, visual, discursive, and imaginary, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of digital material circulating online in a way that creates a digital dimension of the...
Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres
1st Edition
Edited
By Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio de Simões, Sofia José Santos
November 18, 2024
This book explores, from a feminist and intersectional perspective, how masculinities have been (re)negotiated in today’s European digital sphere. By considering new gender-based European trends and scenarios – for example, #metoo, gender ideology, and cultural backlash – the book addresses ...
Virtual Influencers: Identity and Digitality in the Age of Multiple Realities
1st Edition
By Esperanza Miyake
August 01, 2024
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 ...
Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting: Family Life in Uncertain Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebekah Willett, Xinyu Zhao
June 21, 2024
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
June 07, 2024
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, ...
Podcasting as an Intimate Medium
1st Edition
By Alyn Euritt
May 27, 2024
This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts. The book situates textual analysis of specific American podcasts within podcast ...
Posthuman Capitalism: Dancing with Data in the Digital Economy
1st Edition
By Yasmin Ibrahim
January 29, 2024
Posthuman Capitalism critically reviews the manifestation of capitalist agenda online by examining the phenomenon of the ‘posthuman’ in the data economy. The chapters examine our posthuman condition, where we are constantly asked to partake in platforms which perform to capitalist agenda while ...
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future
1st Edition
By Adam Richard Rottinghaus
January 29, 2024
This book explores the origin and future of "upgrade culture," a collection of cultural habits and orientations based on the assumption that new technologies will rapidly, perpetually, and inevitably emerge. By analyzing discourses of technological change and the practices of marketing workers ...
Digital Media and Participatory Cultures of Health and Illness
1st Edition
By Stefania Vicari
September 25, 2023
This book explores how the complex scenario of platforms, practices and content in the contemporary digital landscape is shaping participatory cultures of health and illness. The everyday use of digital and social media platforms has major implications for the production, seeking and sharing of ...
Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms
1st Edition
By Brit Kelley
May 31, 2023
Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online fanfiction. Through exploring fans’ narratives about themselves and the fanwork they produce and consume, the author theorizes how identity, cognition, emotion, the body, and embodiment come together in literacy ...