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1. Cultural Technologies

   The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society

   Edited by Göran Bolin

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Ambiguities of Activism

   Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed

   By Ingrid M. Hoofd

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Global Perspectives on Tarzan

   From King of the Jungle to International Icon

   Edited by Annette Wannamaker, Michelle Abate

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences? How is it that the same narrative serves as the basis for...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sport Beyond Television

   The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport

   By Brett Hutchins, David Rowe

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

   Edited by Harald Hendrix

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Deconstruction After 9/11

   By Martin McQuillan

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Studying Mobile Media

   Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Artificial Culture

   Identity, Technology, and Bodies

   By Tama Leaver

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination

   The Image between the Visible and the Invisible

   Edited by Bernd Huppauf, Christoph Wulf

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet

    By Olga Goriunova

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author...

    Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge