Forthcoming New Media Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions

   A Multimodal Approach

   By Maria Grazia Sindoni

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking...

   To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Radio's New Wave

   Global Sound in the Digital Era

   Edited by Jason Loviglio, Michele Hilmes

   Radio’s New Wave explores the evolution of audio media and sound scholarship in the digital age. Extending and updating the focus of their widely acclaimed 2001 book The Radio Reader, Hilmes and Loviglio gather together innovative work by both established and rising scholars to explore the ways...

   To Be Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Digital Media Sport

   Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society

   Edited by Brett Hutchins, David Rowe

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the...

   To Be Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Infoglut

   How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know

   By Mark Andrejevic

   Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "...

   To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Public Space of Social Media

   Connected Cultures of the Network Society

   By Therese Tierney

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Social media is restructuring urban practices–through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation. This book is the first to consider how practices contained within social media are situated within a larger genealogy of public space, including theories...

   To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Sports Videogames

   Edited by Mia Consalvo, Konstantin Mitgutsch, Abe Stein

   From Pong to Madden NFL to Wii Fit, Sports Videogames argues for the multiple ways that sports videogames—alongside televised and physical sports—impact one another, and how players and viewers make sense of these multiple forms of play and information in their daily lives. Through case studies,...

   To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
7. Pervasive Animation

   Edited by Suzanne Buchan

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, connect them...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Amateur Media

   Social, cultural and legal perspectives

   Edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas

   The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
9. Researching Virtual Worlds

   Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices

   Edited by Louise Phillips, Ursula Plesner

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This volume presents a wide range of methodological strategies that are designed to take into account the complex, emergent, and continually shifting character of virtual worlds. It interrogates how virtual worlds emerge as objects of study through the development and application of various...

   To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
10. Visualization in the Age of Computerization

    Edited by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor, Steve Woolgar

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented rate of innovation in computational imaging and visualising techniques to render physical and non-physical data in visual form, including techniques for multidimensionality, the development of algorithmic techniques for image processing, the...

    To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge