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]
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 ...
On the Evolution of Media: Understanding Media Change
1st Edition
By Carlos A. Scolari
December 18, 2024
This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodological procedures to support the construction of an eco-evolutionary approach to media change. Focusing on a series of processes - emergence, ...
Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations
1st Edition
Edited
By Vikas Kumar, Mohit Rewari
December 18, 2024
This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national ...
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 ...