Cyberculture Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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