Forthcoming Internet Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates

   Edited by Bob Franklin

   Series: Journalism Studies

   The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates analyses the radical shifts in journalism which are changing every aspect of the gathering, reporting and reception of news. The drivers of these changes include the rapid innovations in communication technologies, the competitive and fragmenting...

   To Be Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Writing for the Web

   Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites

   By J.D. Applen

   Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics...

   To Be Published June 6th 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. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

   MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

   By Ole 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...

   To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Social Media in Disaster Response

   How Experience Architects Can Build for Participation

   By Liza Potts

   Series: ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

   Social Media in Disaster Response focuses on how emerging social web tools provide researchers and practitioners with new opportunities to address disaster communication and information design for participatory cultures. Both groups, however, currently lack research toolkits for tracing participant...

   To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Online Journalism in Africa

   Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures

   Edited by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a...

   To Be Published October 12th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Multimediated Rhetoric of the Internet

   Digital Fusion

   By Carolyn Handa

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This project is a critical, rhetorical study of the digital text we call the Internet, in particular the style and figurative surface of its many pages as well as the conceptual, design patterns structuring the content of those same pages. Handa argues that as our lives become increasingly digital,...

   To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Social Media Handbook

   Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa Senft

   The Social Media Handbook explores how social media are changing disciplinary understandings of the internet and our everyday lives. In addition to person-to-person social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, this volume considers a broad range of networked information services that...

   To Be Published November 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Digital Innovations for Mass Communications

   Engaging the User

   By Paul Martin Lester

   In every field of mass communications—advertising, entertainment studies, journalism, public relations, radio-television-film, tourism, and visual reporting—professionals understand the importance of storytelling. Regardless of whether the finished product is a commercial, an in-depth investigative...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China

    By Shuyu Kong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book is a study of the emotional content and public discourse of popular media in contemporary China. Taking as its subjects the production and consumption of blockbuster films, television dramas, entertainment television shows, and their corresponding online audience responses, the book...

    To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge