Politics & Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. War Beyond the Battlefield

   Edited by David Grondin

   In an effort to make sense of war beyond the battlefield in studying the wars that were captured under the rubric of the "War on Terror", this special issue book seeks to explore the complex spatial relationships between war and the spaces that one is not used to thinking of as the battlefield...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America

   Edited by Marleen Brans, B.Guy Peters

   Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

   Anyone observing the recent scandals in the United Kingdom could not fail to understand the political importance of the rewards of high public office. The British experience has been extreme but by no means unique, and many countries have experienced political over the pay and perquisites of public...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution

   Social changes and state responses

   Edited by Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng

   Series: China Policy Series

   In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. New Media, Politics and Society in Israel

   Edited by Gideon Doron, Azi Lev-On

   This book addresses the social and political landscape of Internet usage in Israel, and studies the formation of a networked information society in the "hi-tech nation". As Israel is considered a highly technologically developed country, it could serve as a model to assess and compare the...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Social Media and Democracy

   Innovations in Participatory Politics

   Edited by Brian D Loader, Dan Mercea

   Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication

   This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement. Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure

   Comparative Cases from North America and Europe

   By Thomas Gibbons, Peter Humphreys

   In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators withstand deregulatory pressures on the ‘cultural policy toolkit’ for television? This comparative study provides an interdisciplinary investigation of trends in audiovisual regulation, with the focus on...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

   Edited by Nissim Otmazgin, Eyal Ben-Ari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
9. Digital Governance

   New Technologies for Improving Public Service and Participation

   By Michael E. Milakovich

   The application of digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reform governmental structures, politics, and public administration is widely and perhaps naively viewed as the twenty-first century "savior," the enlightened way to reinvigorate democracy and improve the quality of...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
10. Strategy, Money and Technology in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Edited by Costas Panagopoulos

    The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The confluence of historic and peculiar features associated with the 2008 contest distinguishes it from modern campaign cycles in significant ways that...

    Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge