Books in the Digital Formations series

This groundbreaking volume contributes to the growing body of knowledge in digital ethics and provides a much-needed resource for scholars and teachers interested in exploring ethics in this new digital world.

Challenges prevailing notions about the impact of new information and media technologies. This book encourages a more rational and even skeptical approach to the claims of the information revolution and demonstrates that, despite a wealth of information, ignorance persists and even thrives.

Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture

Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture

Examines the role of history in the study of media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. In this book, remaining essays address the shifting patterns of storage at work in media inscription, as they relate to the practice of history.

Examines the role of history in the study of media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. In this book, remaining essays address the shifting patterns of storage at work in media inscription, as they relate to the practice of history.

Cyberfeminism 2.0

A collection of essays establishes conceptual, critical frameworks for evaluating the latest transformations of the media landscape. It is a comprehensive road map, enabling both scholars and students to examine the social, cultural, and commercial implications of media that are available anywhere at any time.

A collection of essays establishes conceptual, critical frameworks for evaluating the latest transformations of the media landscape. It is a comprehensive road map, enabling both scholars and students to examine the social, cultural, and commercial implications of media that are available anywhere at any time.

With noted experts from communication, public policy, civic engagement, urban planning, and political science, the authors collectively examine the social, economic, and political contexts of the failure to reach the unconnected and the importance of including them in a dynamic, engaged civic democracy.

With noted experts from communication, public policy, civic engagement, urban planning, and political science, the authors collectively examine the social, economic, and political contexts of the failure to reach the unconnected and the importance of including them in a dynamic, engaged civic democracy.

Digital Fandom

Online journalism has taken center stage in debates about the future of news. This volume offers empirical evidence about actual developments in online newsrooms. It presents twelve all-new case studies of newsrooms around the world, including the United States of America, United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Zimbabwe and Malaysia.

Asks how far virtual environments, especially those affiliated with Web 2.0, challenge and foster trust? This text helps to bring the reader the relevant concepts and issues, and on ways in which widely ranging insights and approaches may nonetheless cohere into a reasonably comprehensive account of trust.

Asks how far virtual environments, especially those affiliated with Web 2.0, challenge and foster trust? This text helps to bring the reader on the relevant concepts and issues, and on ways in which widely ranging insights and approaches may nonetheless cohere into a reasonably comprehensive account of trust.

Offers a contextualization of online practices and explores, from a variety of perspectives, the emergence of new experiences and routines in relation to - and new conceptions of - social space. This book addresses the need for further, research-based contextualization of preexisting theories related with globalization, mobility, and others.

Explores everyday life in the new world order of global network. This book argues that network has come into its own as a state of mind and a way of life - in sum, a cultural norm. It examines network as an always-already condition - we are the network, and as such are living in a state of post-global network.

Explores everyday life in the new world order of global network. This book argues that network has come into its own as a state of mind and a way of life - in sum, a cultural norm. It examines network as an always-already condition - we are the network, and as such are living in a state of post-global network.

Puts the field of web history on the agenda of internet research. This title includes chapters that investigates how the use of the web has developed in the realm of web culture at large, and how the organization of web industries and old media institutions on the web has changed. It explores some of possible ways of approaching web of past.

Puts the field of web history on the agenda of internet research. This title includes chapters that investigates how the use of the web has developed in the realm of web culture at large, and how the organization of web industries and old media institutions on the web has changed. It explores some of possible ways of approaching web of past.

This text is a companion to the 2nd edition of Intellectual Property Law And New Media: Free for a Fee. Moving the coverage of case analysis to this separate volume, enables the authors to focus their attention on important trial and legal procedures that apply extant law to, largely, new circumstances.

This volume offers a window into some of the hot-button ethical issues facing a society where digital has become the new normal. The research represented not only reflects on how our ethical frameworks have been changed and challenged by digital technology, but also provides insights for those confronted with specific ethical dilemmas related to digital technology.

Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti.

Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories - some still emerging - can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and discrete components of media systems.

This book suggests that the primary purpose of current production and distribution is not to satisfy human needs but to create profit for the owners of capital that in turn has devastating consequences for the environment and for vulnerable people. Multidisciplinary in perspective, contributors to this volume addresses issues of inequality which affect both developed and developing countries.