Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of digital media. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this subject as its influence and significance grow into the twenty-first century.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Artificial Intelligence in the International Film and Audiovisual Media Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Paulo Nuno Vicente, Catarina Duff Burnay, Mattias Frey, Pei-Sze Chow
August 07, 2026
This edited volume explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the film and audiovisual media industries. Up to now, discussion of this topic has largely dwelled on a few discrete topics, such as the representations of AI in cinematic history or the generation of ...
The Inequality Regime of AI: Power, Allocation, and the Struggle for Justice
1st Edition
By Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu
July 06, 2026
Does artificial intelligence empower humanity, or does it merely automate the stratifications of the past? In The Inequality Regime of AI, the authors offer a critical sociology of artificial power, arguing that AI represents a fundamental ontological shift in how social life is organized, valued, ...
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Rhetorics on Human Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro Ricalde
May 21, 2026
Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, sensory, visual, discursive, and imaginary, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of digital material circulating online in a way that creates a digital dimension of the...
Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres
1st Edition
Edited
By Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio de Simões, Sofia José Santos
May 21, 2026
This book explores, from a feminist and intersectional perspective, how masculinities have been (re)negotiated in today’s European digital sphere. By considering new gender-based European trends and scenarios – for example, #metoo, gender ideology, and cultural backlash – the book addresses ...
Playing Politics in Digital Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Chouraqui, Alex Gekker, Bram Ieven, Saniye Ince, Frans-Willem Korsten, Sybille Lammes, Sara Polak
February 20, 2026
Playing Politics in Digital Spaces offers a timely analysis of play and politics woven together to imagine and enact new worlds, democratic and reactionary alike. Bringing together media and philosophical insights into the concepts of play, politics and worlding (or world-making), the book ...
Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting: Family Life in Uncertain Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebekah Willett, Xinyu Zhao
December 26, 2025
This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents’ understanding of children’s media use. Drawing on interviews with 130 parents at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores specific cultural contexts across seven ...
The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions and Co-option
1st Edition
By Yanning Huang
December 26, 2025
This book offers an in- depth study of the quasi- political, self-deprecating, and parodic buzzwords and memes prevalent in Chinese online discourse. Combining discourse analysis with in- depth audience research among the young internet users who deploy these buzzwords in on- and offline contexts, ...
Virtual Influencers: Identity and Digitality in the Age of Multiple Realities
1st Edition
By Esperanza Miyake
December 26, 2025
This book identifies the converging socio- cultural, economic, and technological conditions that have shaped, informed, and realised the identity of the contemporary virtual influencer, situating them at the intersection of social media, consumer culture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital ...
Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Deirdre Flynn, Mary McGill
December 10, 2025
Irish Digital Cultures explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country and globally. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars and media studies professionals from ...
AI in Popular Culture: Precarious Creativity in the Generative AI Era
1st Edition
By Dal Yong Jin
December 08, 2025
This book examines the transformative impact of generative AI on cultural production, with a particular focus on how AI technologies like ChatGPT are reshaping the creation of popular culture. Through a comprehensive analysis of both Global North and South perspectives, the book offers ...
The Meme as the Message: Digital Culture Between Algorithm, Affect, and Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Joanna Nowotny, Julian Reidy
October 31, 2025
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of memes, covering everything from pandemic humour to far-right propaganda, from feminist memes to algorithmic censorship. Memes are far more than light entertainment - they are complex cultural artefacts that play a role in politics, in art, and in platform ...
Ghosts in the Dating App Machine: Virality, AI, Data Colonialism
1st Edition
By Gregory Narr
October 28, 2025
Ghosts in the Dating App Machine offers a critical examination of the shift to dating apps to illustrate key features of a broader shift to a mode of “data” colonialism based on datafication and AI orchestration. This book analyses 48 in-depth and mediated interviews, forums, blogs, and ...