New Media Books

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11. The Social Media Industries

    Edited by Alan B. Albarran

    Series: Media Management and Economics Series

    This volume examines how social media is evolving as an industry—it is an extension of traditional media industries, yet it is distinctly different in its nature and ability to build relationships among users. Examining social media in both descriptive and analytical ways, the chapters included...

    Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
12. Interrogating Trauma

    Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

    Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

    Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
13. Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games

    Analyzing Words, Design, and Play

    By Christopher A. Paul

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
14. North Africa’s Arab Spring

    Edited by George Joffé

    This book addresses issues surrounding the evolution of the Arab Spring in North Africa. After a general introduction and explanation of the events on a region-wide basis, it turns to examine aspects of each of the countries concerned. The role of the Muslim Brotherhood during the Nasser regime and...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
15. 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 January 28th 2013 by Routledge
16. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

    By Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
17. Social Media and the Law

    A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals

    Edited by Daxton Stewart

    Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Flickr allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen—and have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields. But as...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
18. Media Authorship

    Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
19. Visual Communication on the Web

    By xtine burrough, Paul Martin Lester

    Most web design books developed for the trade market are a series of exercises without a theoretical, aesthetic, or historic framework. In this book, Visual Communication on the Web, web design exercises are accompanied by concise introductions that relate history, design principles, and...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
20. Translation in the Digital Age

    By Michael Cronin

    Series: New Perspectives in Translation Studies

    Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge