Bücher der Reihe Digital Formations

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.

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.

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.

This book offers a wide range of perspectives and empirical research, providing analyses of crowdfunded projects, the interaction between producers and audiences, and the role that websites such as Kickstarter play in discussions around fan agency and exploitation, as well as the ethics of crowdfunding.

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.

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media.

This book offers a wide range of perspectives and empirical research, providing analyses of crowdfunded projects, the interaction between producers and audiences, and the role that websites such as Kickstarter play in discussions around fan agency and exploitation, as well as the ethics of crowdfunding.

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media.

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.

How do individuals perceive the increasingly open-ended nature of mediated surveillance? In what ways are mediated surveillance practices interwoven with identity processes, political struggles, expression of dissent and the production of social space? This book deals with these questions.

Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics is a collection of essays by veteran online researchers who provide testimonial illustrations as to how traditional research methods may be modified for effective online research as well as identify and discuss the critical issues and dilemmas encountered. The former serves as a resource for teachers, students, and researchers who utilize online environments for information gathering. The latter is designed to stimulate ongoing debates and creative ideas about an as yet nonregulated arena of research. Online Social Research addresses online research which are practiced in the fields of communication, journalism, sociology, psychology, marketing, education, medicine as well as related disciplines that may have occasions to utilize surveys, interviews, and observations for information gathering in online environments. Since this book deals with methodological consideration, it is designed as a text for research methods classes as well as a resource for researchers.

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.

This book engages the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of the hacker and maker movements in their contemporary contexts.

This book engages the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of the hacker and maker movements in their contemporary contexts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.