Cyberculture Books

New and Published Books

1. Analysing Media Discourses

   Edited by John E. Richardson, Joseph D. Burridge

   The continual growth in the significance of mass-mediated communication makes it essential that we are able to reflect upon and critically appreciate the semiotic processes that are involved in their impact upon social and cultural life. This edited collection showcases a range of diverse...

   Published May 16th 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. The Current State of Domain Name Regulation

   Domain Names as Second Class Citizens in a Mark-Dominated World

   By Konstantinos Komaitis

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law

   In this book Konstantinos Komaitis identifies a tripartite problem – intellectual, institutional and ethical – inherent in the domain name regulation culture. Using the theory of property, Komaitis discusses domain names as sui generis ‘e-property’ rights and analyses the experience of the past ten...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Beyond Cyberpunk

   New Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies

   By Christian Fuchs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Transcending Taboos

   A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace

   By Garry Young, Monica Whitty

   Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the...

   Published March 11th 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. 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 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Self-Mediation

   New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

   Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

   Blogs, You Tube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are but a few of the new media options available for ordinary people to express themselves in public. This intensely technological presentation of everyday lives in our public culture is today hailed as a new,...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. InterMedia in South Asia

    The Fourth Screen

    Edited by Rajinder Dudrah, Sangita Gopal, Amit Rai, Anustup Basu

    The emergence of new media today in South Asia has signalled an event, the meaning of which remains obscure but whose reality is rapidly evolving along gradients of intensity and experience. Contemporary media in and from South Asia have come to sense a new arrangement of value, sensation, and...

    Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge