Cyberculture Books

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1. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

   By Ole Mjos

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

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88274-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Transcending Taboos: A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace

   By Garry Young, Monica Whitty

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57933-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Artificial Intelligence: The Basics

   By Kevin Warwick

   Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a concise and jargon-free introduction to the fast moving world of AI. Examining the modern origins of artificial intelligence, this book explores issues of what it means to be man or machine and looks at advances in robotics which have blurred the boundaries....

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-56483-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Routledge International Handbook of Internet Gambling

   Edited by Robert Williams, Robert Wood, Jonathan Parke

   Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Over 2000 Internet gambling websites generate global revenues exceeding $17 billion per year. Jurisdictions around the world grapple to understand...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-59443-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Gamers: Digital Gaming and Everyday Life

   By Garry Crawford, Victoria K Gosling

   Digital gaming has, over only a few decades, become a major global and leisure industry rivalling the movie and music sectors. Given gaming's widespread, and increasing, popularity this has in recent years become the focus of increased academic interest and activity, but still relatively little is...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-55620-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The Mobile Interface of Everyday Life: Technology, Embodiment, and Culture

   By Jason Farman

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-87891-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies

   By Christian Fuchs

   The task of this book is to ground foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society. The author introduces theoretical and empirical tools for critical media and information studies. He shows which role classical critical theory can...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58881-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Coverage: Media Spaces and Security after 9/11

   By Lisa Parks

   Since the 9/11 attacks, media and security are increasingly intertwined as the media technologies of filtering, sorting and keywording have become essential elements of national defense. In this book, Lisa Parks explores the complex relations between media and security and uses the term "coverage"...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-99982-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Creating Second Lives: Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual

   Edited by Astrid Ensslin, Eben Muse

   This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-88420-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Attention, Please!: Choreographing Attention with the Tools of Digital Distraction

    By Eric Gordon, David Bogen

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-88024-4 | Paperback (Routledge)