New Media

Drawing on a wide range of national, regional, and international examples, this book provides the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory. Cell Phone Culture is a clear and sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the techn..

This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad...

This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm...

The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their ..

The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their ..

This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’s phil..

This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’s phil..

This volume examines the impact new digital technologies have on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups...

This volume examines the impact new digital technologies have on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book develops the concept of "gamble-play media", describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies...

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 th..