Cyberculture Books

New and Published Books

1. Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions

   A Multimodal Approach

   By Maria Grazia Sindoni

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics

   The Challenge of Being Seamlessly Mobile

   Edited by Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   As an example of convergence, the mobile phone—especially in the form of smartphone—is now ushering in new promises of seamlessness between engagement with technology and everyday common experiences. This seamlessness is not only about how one transitions between the worlds of the device and the...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Museum Communication and Social Media

   The Connected Museum

   By Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses. The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation of familiar opportunities and obstacles in...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Online@AsiaPacific

   Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

   By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

   Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
5. Disorder and the Disinformation Society

   The Social Dynamics of Networks and Software

   By Jonathan Marshall, James Goodman, Didar Zowghi, Francesca da Rimini

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Based in both rigorous theoretical work and case studies of software and network usage and installation, this book explores the idea that disruption and disorder are essential to the dynamic composition of contemporary Information Society. It covers topics ranging from organizational and social...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping

   No Time for Mother

   By Elizabeth Nathanson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

   In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Online Society in China

   Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival

   Edited by David Kurt Herold, Peter Marolt

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which individuals and institutions emerge and interact. While offline and online spaces are connected and influence each...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Advertising

    Edited by Iain MacRury

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Academic analysts and practitioner-theorists of advertising draw on rich and innovative multidisciplinary resources where cultural and media analysis meet economics, anthropology, semiotics, gender studies, social psychology, linguistics, and applied neuroscience. This new four-volume collection...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge