Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

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1. Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games

   Analyzing Words, Design, and Play

   By Christopher A. Paul

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Disability and New Media

   By Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

   By Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Cyberpop

   Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture

   By Sidney Eve Matrix

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Cyberpop is an analysis of cyberculture and its popular cultural productions. The study begins with a Foucaultian model of cyberculture as a discursive formation, and explains how some key concepts (such as 'virtuality,' 'speed,' and 'Connectivity') operate as a conceptual architecture network...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Internet in China

   Cyberspace and Civil Society

   By Zixue Tai

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   The Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for Chinese society. The rapid growth of the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by the Chinese government, but the government has also rushed to seize control of the virtual environment. Individuals...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Mobile Technology and Place

   Edited by Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   An international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Dean Chan

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production and consumption such as Japan, China, and South Korea, as well as increasingly significant sites...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Creating Second Lives

   Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual

   Edited by Astrid Ensslin, Eben Muse

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’...

   Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge
9. Virtual English

   Queer Internets and Digital Creolization

   By Jillana B. Enteen

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Virtual English examines English language communication on the World Wide Web, focusing on Internet practices crafted by underserved communities in the US and overlooked participants in several Asian Diaspora communities. Jillana Enteen locates instances where subjects use electronic media to...

   Published December 9th 2009 by Routledge
10. Decoding Liberation

    The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

    By Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title Software is more than a set of instructions for computers: it enables (and disables) political imperatives and policies. Nowhere is the potential for radical social and political change more apparent than in the practice and movement known as "free software." Free...

    Published November 8th 2009 by Routledge