Sociology of Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Self-Mediation

   New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

   Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

   Blogs, You Tube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are but a few of the new media options available for ordinary people to express themselves in public. This intensely technological presentation of everyday lives in our public culture is today hailed as a new,...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age

   By Ben Agger

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   People ‘overshare’ when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Design Research

   Synergies from Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Monika Büscher, John Damm Scheuer

   Design Research is a new interdisciplinary research area with a social science orientation at its heart, and this book explores how scientific knowledge can be put into practice in ways that are at once ethical, creative, helpful, and extraordinary in their results. In order to clarify the common...

   Published January 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Social Media and Democracy

   Innovations in Participatory Politics

   Edited by Brian D Loader, Dan Mercea

   Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication

   This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement. Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism

   The Economic Crisis and After

   Edited by Mark Hayward

   While many discussions of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 have sought to explain the causes of the financial collapse, this volume looks to supplement these accounts by exploring possible alternatives for the post-crisis world in which we now live. However, rather than offering a strictly economic...

   Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

   Edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, Jane Vincent

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Media Accountability

   Who Will Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?

   Edited by William Babcock

   A small collection of well-honed tools has been employed for some time by media practitioners and the public to help maintain and improve the credibility of journalism and the mass media. These media accountability tools have included ethics codes, media critics, news councils, ombudsmen,...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. Violence and War in Culture and the Media

   Five Disciplinary Lenses

   Edited by Athina Karatzogianni

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. However, this is the first volume that...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. A Normative Theory of the Information Society

   By Alistair S. Duff

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Migration and New Media

    Transnational Families and Polymedia

    By Mirca Madianou, Daniel Miller

    How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...

    Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge