Digital Lifestyle

In social science outstanding results are yielded by advanced simulation methods, based on state of the art software technologies and an appropriat...

This book explains how designing, playing and modifying computer games, and understanding the theory behind them, can strengthen the area of digita...

As the number of Internet-based consumer transactions continues to rise, the need to protect these transactions against hacking becomes more and mo...

Analyzing and Securing Social Networks focuses on the two major technologies that have been developed for online social networks (OSNs): (i) data m...

World Wide Web is becoming an utility, not unlike electricity or running water in our homes. This creates new ways of using the web, where Social M...

Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV ...

Information is everywhere, and defines everything in today's society. Moreover, information is a key concept in a wide range of academic discipline...

Scholars and professionals from all over the world, across experience levels and the gender and sexuality spectrum, share experiences and analysis ...

New technologies and new media have significantly influenced the process of political communication. They have created new opportunities such as th...

The recognition that identity is mutable, multi-layered and subject to multiple modes of construction and de-construction has contributed to proble...

This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrate...

Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. Although these phenomena are older than...

Methods for studying writing processes have significantly developed over the last two decades. The rapid development of software tools which suppor...

Although the use of cloud computing platforms and applications has expanded rapidly, most books on the subject focus on high-level concepts. There ...

A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons thousands of miles ap...

Navigate your way through your family’s past Interested in family history? Keen to discover who your ancestors really were? Want to find out more f...

While there are sporadic journal articles on socio-technical networks, there’s long been a need for an integrated resource that addresses concrete ...

While the assessment of digital games in Germany is framed by a high-culture critique, which regards them as an ‘illegitimate’ activity, they are e...

′The aim of this book is to support schools in using the internet effectively. Refreshingly, it has a strong pedagogical focus and emphasises the v...

A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons thousands of miles ap...

"The committee felt that Global Perspectives on E-Learning: Rhetoric and Reality was a remarkable commentary on the disconnect between the rhetoric...

This book explores the lifecycle of digital games. Drawing upon a broad range of media studies perspectives with aspects of sociology, social theor...

`A highly topical, interesting and lively analysis of ordinary internet use, based on both theoretically competent reflections and sound ethnograph...