Internet Books

New and Published Books

1. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

   MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

   By Ole Mjos

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. Media Accountability

   Who Will Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?

   Edited by William Babcock

   A small collection of well-honed tools has been employed for some time by media practitioners and the public to help maintain and improve the credibility of journalism and the mass media. These media accountability tools have included ethics codes, media critics, news councils, ombudsmen,...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
3. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. Net Works

   Case Studies in Web Art and Design

   By xtine burrough

   Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists,...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Post-Soviet Russian Media

   Conflicting Signals

   Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Internet Linguistics

   A Student Guide

   By David Crystal

   The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the...

   Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. Writing for Digital Media

   By Brian Carroll

   Writing for Digital Media teaches students how to write effectively for online audiences—whether they are crafting a story for the website of a daily newspaper or a personal blog. The lessons and exercises in each chapter help students build a solid understanding of the ways that the Internet has...

   Published April 5th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

   Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

   By Jessica Reyman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
9. Producing for Web 2.0

   A Student Guide, 3rd Edition

   By Jason Whittaker

   Praise for the previous edition: 'Gives an excellent insight into the main issues of creating a website and offers a good foundation of knowledge.' – i.net Producing for Web 2.0 is a clear and practical guide to the planning, set up and management of a website in web 2.0. It gives...

   Published June 1st 2009 by Routledge
10. Internet

    By Lorenzo Cantoni, Stefano Tardini

    Series: Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications

    From music to gaming, information gathering to eLearning; eCommerce to eGovernment, Lorenzo Cantoni and Stefano Tardini's absorbing introduction considers the internet as a communication technology; the opportunities it affords us, the limitations it imposes and the functions it...

    Published February 22nd 2006 by Routledge