Cyberculture Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Advertising

   Edited by Iain MacRury

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE!(Valid until 3 months after publication) 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,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture

   Artificial Slaves

   By Kevin LaGrandeur

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Social Media and the Law

   A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals

   Edited by Daxton Stewart

   Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Flickr allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen—and have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields. But as...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Media Authorship

   Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Teenagers and Technology

   By Chris Davies, Rebecca Eynon

   Series: Adolescence and Society

   The popular media often presents a negative picture of young people and technology. From addiction to gaming, the distractions of the Internet, to the risks of social networking, the downsides of new technology in the lives of teenagers are often over-blown. Teenagers and Technology presents a...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cyberbullying

   Development, Consequences, Risk and Protective Factors

   Edited by Ersilia Menesini, Christiane Spiel

   Series: Special Issues of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

   From the beginning of 2000, with the increase and diffusion of modern technologies, a new form of bullying using electronic means has emerged. Literature has reached some consistent findings on the description of the problem. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about developmental processes...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Psychology Press
10. Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies

    Edited by Lisa McLaughlin, Cynthia Carter

    Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies features contributions written by a diverse group of stellar feminist scholars from around the world. Each contributor has authored a brief, thought-provoking commentary on the current status and future directions of feminist media studies. Although...

    Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge