World Wide Web & Internet Books

New and Published Books

1. The Current State of Domain Name Regulation

   Domain Names as Second Class Citizens in a Mark-Dominated World

   By Konstantinos Komaitis

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law

   In this book Konstantinos Komaitis identifies a tripartite problem – intellectual, institutional and ethical – inherent in the domain name regulation culture. Using the theory of property, Komaitis discusses domain names as sui generis ‘e-property’ rights and analyses the experience of the past ten...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

   MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

   By Ole Mjos

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. New Practices - New Pedagogies

   A Reader

   Edited by Malcolm Miles

   Series: Innovations in Art and Design

   With radical changes happening in arts over the past two decades, this book brings us up to date with the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced. Influential and knowledgable leaders in the field debate how arts education - particularly in visual art - has changed to meet new...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Media Accountability

   Who Will Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?

   Edited by William Babcock

   A small collection of well-honed tools has been employed for some time by media practitioners and the public to help maintain and improve the credibility of journalism and the mass media. These media accountability tools have included ethics codes, media critics, news councils, ombudsmen,...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet

   By Olga Goriunova

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
6. Japanese Religions on the Internet

   Innovation, Representation, and Authority

   Edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, Birgit Staemmler

   Series: Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture

   Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its intention is to contribute to wider discussions about religion and the Internet by providing an important example – based on one of the Internet’s most...

   Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
7. 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 December 19th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Meaning of Video Games

   Gaming and Textual Strategies

   By Steven E. Jones

   The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of...

   Published February 18th 2008 by Routledge
9. Cyberhenge

   Modern Pagans on the Internet

   By Douglas E. Cowan

   Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way....

   Published October 25th 2004 by Routledge
10. Religion Online

    Finding Faith on the Internet

    Edited by Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan

    Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core...

    Published June 28th 2004 by Routledge