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 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 ...
Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem
1st Edition
By Francisco Yus
May 31, 2023
This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated communication, from text messages and GIFs to images, video and social media apps. Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, ...
Digital Icons: Memes, Martyrs and Avatars
1st Edition
By Yasmin Ibrahim
August 01, 2022
This book offers critical perspectives on the digital ‘iconic’, exploring how the notion of the iconic is re-appropriated and re-made online, and the consequences for humanity and society. Examining cross-cultural case studies of iconic images in digital spaces, the author offers original and ...
Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life
1st Edition
By Jenny Kennedy
September 30, 2021
Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life provides nuanced accounts of the processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. The book explores definitions of sharing, and the roles that our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices. Drawing upon ...
Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production: Critical Perspectives on Digital Platforms
1st Edition
By Dal Yong Jin
May 27, 2021
This book offers an in-depth academic discourse on the convergence of AI, digital platforms, and popular culture, in order to understand the ways in which the platform and cultural industries have reshaped and developed AI-driven algorithmic cultural production and consumption. At a time of ...
The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality
1st Edition
By Bradley E. Wiggins
September 30, 2020
Shared, posted, tweeted, commented upon, and discussed online as well as off-line, internet memes represent a new genre of online communication, and an understanding of their production, dissemination, and implications in the real world enables an improved ability to navigate digital culture. This ...
Women and the Digitally-Mediated Revolution in the Middle East: Applying Digital Methods
1st Edition
By C. L. Bernardi
September 30, 2020
This book applies digital methods of analysis to the study of the impact of digital technologies on the social and political spheres of women in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. These countries have been early embracers of digital technologies in the Middle East, and are therefore useful cases to examine ...
Digital Gambling: Theorizing Gamble-Play Media
1st Edition
By César Albarrán-Torres
August 14, 2020
This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Digital gambling brings gambling closer to the practices and features of videogames, as audio-visual simulations structure users’ ...
Gay Men, Identity and Social Media: A Culture of Participatory Reluctance
1st Edition
By Elija Cassidy
August 14, 2020
This book explores how the social and technical integration of mainstream social media into gay men’s digital cultures since the mid 2000s has played out in the lives of young gay men, looking at how these convergences have influenced more recent iterations of gay men’s digital culture. Focusing on...
Digital Interfacing: Action and Perception through Technology
1st Edition
By Daniel Black
June 30, 2020
This book takes the interface – or rather to interface, a process rather than a discrete object or location – as a concept emblematic of our contemporary embodied relationship with technological artefacts. The fundamental question addressed by this book is: How can we understand what it means to ...
Online Activism in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Hilda Chacón
June 30, 2020
Online Activism in Latin America examines the innovative ways in which Latin American citizens, and Latin@s in the U.S., use the Internet to advocate for causes that they consider just. The contributions to the volume analyze citizen-launched websites, interactive platforms, postings, and group ...