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]
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 ...
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 ...
Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data
1st Edition
By Jacob Johanssen
June 30, 2020
Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular—by drawing on psychoanalysis and media studies frameworks. It provides an introduction to the psychoanalytic affect theories of Sigmund Freud and ...
Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web
1st Edition
Edited
By Martha McCaughey
April 25, 2018
Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web—with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content—has reshaped political and social change. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact ...
The Ubiquitous Internet: User and Industry Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anja Bechmann, Stine Lomborg
February 06, 2018
This book presents state of the art theoretical and empirical research on the ubiquitous internet: its everyday users and its economic stakeholders. The book offers a 360-degree media analysis of the contemporary terrain of the internet by examining both user and industry perspectives and their ...
Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, Thom Swiss
February 06, 2018
This volume proposes the mobile Internet is best understood as a socio-technical "assemblage" of objects, practices, symbolic representations, experiences and affects. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss practices mediated through mobile communication, including current phone and tablet ...
Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel T. Kline
February 05, 2018
Digital gaming’s cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by examining how the Middle Ages have persisted into ...
Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability
1st Edition
By Britta Timm Knudsen, Carsten Stage
February 05, 2018
Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change, ...
Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiesun Cecilia Suhr
February 05, 2018
Social media have dramatically popularized practices of evaluation, especially of cultural products and artistic expressions. The practices of "liking" and rating any shared contents such as music to blogs, film, videos, photographs to artwork and performances are ubiquitous in today’s digital ...
Online Games, Social Narratives
1st Edition
By Esther MacCallum-Stewart
February 05, 2018
The study of online gaming is changing. It is no longer enough to analyse one type of online community in order to understand the plethora of players who take part in online worlds and the behaviours they exhibit. MacCallum-Stewart studies the different ways in which online games create social ...
Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture: Location and Latin American Net Art
1st Edition
By Claire Taylor
February 05, 2018
This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how ...