Technoculture Books

New and Published Books

1. Mobile Media Practices, Presence and Politics

   The Challenge of Being Seamlessly Mobile

   Edited by Kathleen M. Cumiskey, Larissa Hjorth

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   As an example of convergence, the mobile phone—especially in the form of smartphone—is now ushering in new promises of seamlessness between engagement with technology and everyday common experiences. This seamlessness is not only about how one transitions between the worlds of the device and the...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Disorder and the Disinformation Society

   The Social Dynamics of Networks and Software

   By Jonathan Marshall, James Goodman, Didar Zowghi, Francesca da Rimini

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Based in both rigorous theoretical work and case studies of software and network usage and installation, this book explores the idea that disruption and disorder are essential to the dynamic composition of contemporary Information Society. It covers topics ranging from organizational and social...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. The Good Life in a Technological Age

   Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

   Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, Jane Vincent

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures

   Passionate Play

   By Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book about...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Gender Circuits

   Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age

   By Eve Shapiro

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
10. Global Nomads

    Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa

    By Anthony D'Andrea

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice and international tourism in...

    Published July 13th 2009 by Routledge