Cyberculture Books

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31. 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
32. 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
33. InterMedia in South Asia

    The Fourth Screen

    Edited by Rajinder Dudrah, Sangita Gopal, Amit Rai, Anustup Basu

    The emergence of new media today in South Asia has signalled an event, the meaning of which remains obscure but whose reality is rapidly evolving along gradients of intensity and experience. Contemporary media in and from South Asia have come to sense a new arrangement of value, sensation, and...

    Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
34. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

    MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

    By Ole J. 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
35. Artificial Culture

    Identity, Technology, and Bodies

    By Tama Leaver

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
36. 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
37. 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
38. Mobile Interface Theory

    Embodied Space and Locative Media

    By Jason Farman

    Mobile media – from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks – are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more using our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
39. Race After the Internet

    Edited by Lisa Nakamura, Peter Chow-White

    In Race After the Internet, Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White bring together a collection of interdisciplinary, forward-looking essays exploring the complex role that digital media technologies play in shaping our ideas about race. Contributors interrogate changing ideas of race within the context...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
40. 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