Books in the Digital Formations series

Datafied Childhoods examines the multiple ways in which datafication, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI), transform the contexts for children: at home, school, and in peer and parent-child relationships. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an important moment for reimagining how data are repurposed for the social good and best interests of children.

Continuing the explorations begun in the first two Produsing Theory volumes, this book investigates some of the tensions generated in the spaces enabled by the confluence of the formerly disparate activities of producing and consuming media.

Continuing the explorations begun in the first two Produsing Theory volumes, this book investigates some of the tensions generated in the spaces enabled by the confluence of the formerly disparate activities of producing and consuming media.

What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.

What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity.

Forget everything you know about spam. Now, let's talk about spam. Media Distortions is about the power behind producing deviant media categories. This book examines the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what this power means for our broader understanding of media.

Growing up on Facebook examines the role of Facebook, and other social media platforms that have emerged around Facebook, in mediating experiences of 'growing up' for young people.

Television 2.0 sets out to document and interrogate shifting patterns of engagement with digital television.

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is characterised by a more and more networked and social structure.

Digital Orientations is a bold call for non-media-centric media studies (and ultimately for everyday-life studies) with a non-representational theoretical emphasis.

Examining challenges in a wide range of contexts, this book investigates and critically examines our systems of data management, including the ways that data are collected, exchanged, analyzed, and re-purposed.

In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the self-proclaimed "front page of the internet". Massanari's ethnographic work provides a detailed examination of the contradictions that shape Reddit's culture and how they reflect its role as an epicenter of geek culture.

Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. An overview of the Internet's past and anticipated future is provided

Using three case studies, this book argues that the lenses through which scholars and society's leaders think about new technology place too much emphasis on the technological and economic aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and not enough on the impact of ICTs on social processes at the everyday level.

Describes the failure of the once powerful US newspaper industry to adapt in the online era. This book provides insight into how the decisions made in the early years of the online era have influenced the industry's economic condition.

With a focus on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, and YouTube, this book describes the theoretical and historical background of computer-mediated communication alongside the cultural changes occurring with the introduction of digital media in society. Special features including terms, examples, CMC theory, and suggestions for student exercises.

The netted human we may call Homo Irretitus resides in a space made possible by technologies referred to as media, social media, and Web 2.0. This book gathers scholars from external to core of media studies, each of whom applies a theoretical perspective to intersection of audience and production in space enabled by communications technologies.

A New Theory of Information & the Internet

Digital Media Criticism

Examines the convergence of media in the largest residential virtual community to date in the gaming world: Second Life. This title explores media's role in reporting and reflecting the social, political, and economic issues within Second Life and beyond, and includes more than a dozen interviews of active Second Life residents.

How does one make sense of YouTube? This book presents an accessible, yet critical introduction to reading YouTube. It is designed primarily for classroom use that develops a conceptual language for students to use as they engage with the complex, interactive texts of YouTube and digital culture more generally.

Suitable for theoreticians, empirical analysts, students, those contributing to policy and anyone interested in the steering philosophical ideas that inform their own orientation and thinking about privacy, this book draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters.

Explores the emergence of a permanent campaign - the need for constant readiness - on networked communication platforms, focusing on political moments, crises and elections in Canada, the USA, and Australia. This book chapters investigate the proliferation of political actors and communicators.

Explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu's notion of field and capital. This book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, and the roles and the impact they have on the music industry and musicians.

This book is about online subcultures thriving in the border zones between pop cultural and political engagement. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops a cultural theory of social movements in the digital age.

Combining dynamic stories, cutting-edge research, and deep reflection on the role of space in our lives, Digital Proxemics examines the ways that our uses of physical and digital spaces and our uses of technology are converging.