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]
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 ...
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 ...
Becoming-Social in a Networked Age
1st Edition
By Neal Thomas
December 10, 2019
This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Where ...
Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Serrano Tellería
December 10, 2019
Mobile devices’ impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological environment (operating systems, platforms, apps) and media ecosystems (interface design, participatory culture, social media) influence how users deal with...
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance
1st Edition
By Sara Schoonmaker
December 10, 2019
This book explores software's pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media. Creating conditions for the ongoing development and use of software, including the Internet as a communications infrastructure, is one of the most compelling issues of our ...
Performing Digital Activism: New Aesthetics and Discourses of Resistance
1st Edition
By Fidèle A. Vlavo
December 10, 2019
From the emergence of digital protest as part of the Zapatista rebellion, to the use of disturbance tactics against governments and commercial institutions, there is no doubt that digital technology and networks have become the standard features of 21st century social mobilisation. Yet, little is ...
Social Media, Social Genres: Making Sense of the Ordinary
1st Edition
By Stine Lomborg
December 10, 2019
Internet-based applications such as blogs, social network sites, online chat forums, text messages, microblogs, and location-based communication services used from computers and smart phones represent central resources for organizing daily life and making sense of ourselves and the social worlds we...
Studying Digital Media Audiences: Perspectives from Australasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Craig Hight, Ramaswami Harindranath
December 10, 2019
Although many digital platforms continue to appropriate and reconfigure familiar forms of media experience, this is an environment which no longer consistently constructs an identifiable 'mass' audience in the terms understood by twentieth century audience researchers. The notion of 'audiencing' ...
The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Pesce, Paolo Noto
June 28, 2018
In the age of "complex Tv", of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance of a fictional world and other mediatized discourse over a long arc of time. The life of media ...
Citizen Participation and Political Communication in a Digital World
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Frame, Gilles Brachotte
April 25, 2018
The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their...