Technoculture Books

New and Published Books

1. The Good Life in a Technological Age

   Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

   Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, Jane Vincent

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures

   Passionate Play

   By Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book about...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Gender Circuits

   Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age

   By Eve Shapiro

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
5. Global Nomads

   Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa

   By Anthony D'Andrea

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice and international tourism in...

   Published July 13th 2009 by Routledge
6. Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies

   By Gail Landsman

   Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives...

   Published August 19th 2008 by Routledge
7. Freedom of Expression

   A critical and comparative analysis

   By Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich

   Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

   This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the issues surrounding freedom of expression, looking at the current legal position in a number of European countries as well as engaging with the wider debates on the topic amongst sociologists, political scientists and economists. In the book...

   Published August 14th 2008 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. The Medicalization of Cyberspace

   By Andy Miah, Emma Rich

   The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves within virtual communities. What are the...

   Published February 13th 2008 by Routledge
9. Young Citizens in the Digital Age

   Political Engagement, Young People and New Media

   Edited by Brian D. Loader

   A social anxiety currently pervades the political classes of the western world, arising from the perception that young people have become disaffected with liberal democratic politics. Voter turnout among 18-25 year olds continues to be lower than other age groups and they are less likely to join...

   Published July 11th 2007 by Routledge
10. Theories of the Information Society

    By Frank Webster

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information...

    Published August 10th 2006 by Routledge