Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of digital media. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this subject as its influence and significance grow into the twenty-first century.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
[email protected]
Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth: Participatory Research as a Gateway
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Hornmoen, Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Dagny Stuedahl
July 23, 2025
Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth explores young people’s participation in digital media spaces, drawing on participatory research methods to reflect with youth on how digital media is interwoven into their daily lives. Focusing on young people’s understandings of ...
Digital Media as Ambient Therapy: The Ecological Self between Resonance and Alienation
1st Edition
By Francis Russell
June 27, 2025
Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways “mental illness” can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for “mental health” and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such ...
The Chinese Internet: Political Economy and Digital Discourse
1st Edition
By Yuqi Na
May 06, 2025
This book explores China’s digital discourse and how the Internet influences social and ideological changes to the country’s political economy, within China’s historical context and through a variety of social and political actors. Analysing discourses as diverse as policy papers, addresses from ...
Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations
1st Edition
Edited
By Phillip H. Roth, Ana María Guzmán Olmos, Alin Olteanu, Stefan Böschen
April 22, 2025
Making Media Futures offers a multi-perspectival exploration of how imaginaries and knowledge of the future are constructed in and through various media. The volume addresses the discursive dimensions of imaginaries and future visions as well as the impact of technological, material, and cultural ...
Delusive Speech in the Sharing Economy: Scam Inc.
1st Edition
By Julie Reid
March 03, 2025
In this examination of how the rise of online sharing economy platforms has facilitated online crime, this book shows how, while marketed as trustworthy peer-to-peer services, these platforms are highly vulnerable to misuse by scammers and are used for the dissemination of delusive speech. The ...
New Digital Feminist Interventions: Speaking Up, Talking Back
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuliana Sorce, Tanja Thomas
December 31, 2024
This volume proposes “speaking up” and “talking back” as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces. Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, it highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial actors, groups, and collectives who recover...
On the Evolution of Media: Understanding Media Change
1st Edition
By Carlos A. Scolari
December 18, 2024
This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodological procedures to support the construction of an eco-evolutionary approach to media change. Focusing on a series of processes - emergence, ...
Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations
1st Edition
Edited
By Vikas Kumar, Mohit Rewari
December 18, 2024
This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects of social media during the pandemic, the book offers new frameworks, concepts, tools and techniques for integrating social media to support national ...
Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Rosales, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Jakob Svensson
November 28, 2024
This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital ...
Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
November 28, 2024
This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies. Moving beyond the ...
Podcasting as an Intimate Medium
1st Edition
By Alyn Euritt
May 27, 2024
This book delves into the notion of intimacy as a defining feature of podcasting, examining the concept of intimacy itself and how the public sphere explores the relationships created and maintained through podcasts. The book situates textual analysis of specific American podcasts within podcast ...
Posthuman Capitalism: Dancing with Data in the Digital Economy
1st Edition
By Yasmin Ibrahim
January 29, 2024
Posthuman Capitalism critically reviews the manifestation of capitalist agenda online by examining the phenomenon of the ‘posthuman’ in the data economy. The chapters examine our posthuman condition, where we are constantly asked to partake in platforms which perform to capitalist agenda while ...