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21. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

    Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

    This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
22. Digital Religion

    Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds

    Edited by Heidi A. Campbell

    Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
23. Digital Labor

    The Internet as Playground and Factory

    Edited by Trebor Scholz

    Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving...

    Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
24. Information and Communications Technologies in Society

    E-Living in a Digital Europe

    Edited by Ben Anderson, Malcolm Brynin, Yoel Raban, Jonathan Gershuny

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and the...

    Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
25. Frontiers in New Media Research

    Edited by Francis L.F. Lee, Louis Leung, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Donna S.C. Chu

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life,...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
26. Google and the Culture of Search

    By Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett

    What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
27. Understanding Video Games

    The Essential Introduction, 2nd Edition

    By Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca

    This expanded and revised second edition of Understanding Video Games provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of game studies. Understanding Video Games, 2nd Edition is an essential read for newcomers to video game studies and experienced game scholars alike. This follow-up to...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
28. 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
29. 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...

    Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
30. Heritage and Social Media

    Understanding heritage in a participatory culture

    Edited by Elisa Giaccardi

    Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge