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
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The Discourse of Digitised Emotions
1st Edition
Edited
By Alejandro Parini, Francisco Yus
October 16, 2026
This volume explores how emotions are constructed, expressed, and commodified in digital environments through language and discourse. Examining the multifaceted nature of online emotional communication across personal, intersubjective, and collective dimensions, an international and ...
Artificial Intelligence in the International Film and Audiovisual Media Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Paulo Nuno Vicente, Catarina Duff Burnay, Mattias Frey, Pei-Sze Chow
August 07, 2026
This edited volume explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the film and audiovisual media industries. Up to now, discussion of this topic has largely dwelled on a few discrete topics, such as the representations of AI in cinematic history or the generation of ...
Delusive Speech in the Sharing Economy: Scam Inc.
1st Edition
By Julie Reid
July 20, 2026
In this examination of how the rise of online sharing economy platforms has facilitated online crime, this book shows how, while marketed as trustworthy peer-to-peer services, these platforms are highly vulnerable to misuse by scammers and are used for the dissemination of delusive speech. The ...
Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations
1st Edition
Edited
By Phillip H. Roth, Ana María Guzmán Olmos, Alin Olteanu, Stefan Böschen
July 20, 2026
Making Media Futures offers a multi-perspectival exploration of how imaginaries and knowledge of the future are constructed in and through various media. The volume addresses the discursive dimensions of imaginaries and future visions as well as the impact of technological, material, and cultural ...
New Digital Feminist Interventions: Speaking Up, Talking Back
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuliana Sorce, Tanja Thomas
July 20, 2026
This volume proposes “speaking up” and “talking back” as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces. Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, it highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial actors, groups, and collectives who recover...
Streaming Media and Cultural Memory in a Postdigital Society
1st Edition
By Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Johannes Heuman
July 20, 2026
This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders. By critically reflecting on popular streaming media series, the book identifies their impact ...
The Inequality Regime of AI: Power, Allocation, and the Struggle for Justice
1st Edition
By Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu
June 15, 2026
Does artificial intelligence (AI) 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...
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Rhetorics on Human Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro Ricalde
May 22, 2026
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
May 22, 2026
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 ...
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, ...