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21. The Participatory Cultures Handbook

    Edited by Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson

    How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it? Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture," in...

    Published July 24th 2012 by Routledge
22. 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. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet...

    Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
23. Analysing Media Discourses

    Edited by John E. Richardson, Joseph D. Burridge

    The continual growth in the significance of mass-mediated communication makes it essential that we are able to reflect upon and critically appreciate the semiotic processes that are involved in their impact upon social and cultural life. This edited collection showcases a range of diverse...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
24. 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
25. 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
26. Beyond Cyberpunk

    New Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
27. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies

    By Christian Fuchs

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
28. Transcending Taboos

    A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace

    By Garry Young, Monica Whitty

    Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the...

    Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
29. Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Dean Chan

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production and consumption such as Japan, China, and South Korea, as well as increasingly significant sites...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
30. Self-Mediation

    New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

    Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

    Blogs, You Tube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are but a few of the new media options available for ordinary people to express themselves in public. This intensely technological presentation of everyday lives in our public culture is today hailed as a new,...

    Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge