Books in the Digital Formations series

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.

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.

A New Theory of Information & the Internet

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.

Digital Fandom

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data.

Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data.

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.

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

This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the "audience commodity" as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of media/communication, culture, society, economics, and technology.

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.

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 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.

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 provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures might be implicated in global economic, political, and social systems of control.

This volume provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures might be implicated in global economic, political, and social systems of control.

With new chapters that focus on the economics of crowdfunding, the playfulness of Tumblr, and the hybridity of the fan experience, alongside revised chapters that explore blogs, wikis, and social networking sites, Digital Fandom 2.0 continues to develop the "philosophy of playfulness" of the contemporary fan.

Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web is a must-read for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by the past.

Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a public self.

Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web is a must-read for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by the past.

Avatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars-not as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like graphics and glitches.

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

This volume provides a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches that are useful to those looking for a more diverse and nuanced understanding of what ubiquitous media means analytically.