De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures

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De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures

Edited by: Grant Bollmer , Katherine Guinness and Yiğit Soncul

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 17 | De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks

About this book

As Digital Cultures becomes the dominant term used by many across a variety of intellectual fields to describe the social, aesthetic, and political impact of digital media, it is necessary to provide a reference volume that specifies and defines the bounds of scholarly debates and curricular outlines for an otherwise amorphous interdisciplinary space.

This handbook provides a comprehensive reference for the varied methodologies, historical frames, and theoretical perspectives essential for the study of Digital Cultures today. In outlining these foundations, it serves as a practical guide for educators and students into the broad range of perspectives grouped together for the critical, historical, and social scientific study of digital media.

It also looks into the future and outlines an agenda for future research by examining not only the origins of the concept of Digital Culture, but emerging topics and themes still in development, such as the relation between digital technology and climate change, artificial intelligence and knowledge, sensation and aesthetics, and the rise of new infrastructures reinventing not only the built environment, but the boundaries of nations and sovereignty.

The first handbook to provide the historical, theoretical, and methodological foundations for the study of Digital Culture
Contributions by leading scholars in the field
Discusses emerging themes and areas of research

Author / Editor information

Grant Bollmer is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has taught in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and is the author or co-author of five books on the history and theory of digital cultures.

Katherine Guinness is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was previously Assistant Professor and Director of Art History in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Yiğit Soncul is Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. His research spans media theory; visual and material culture; media and the environment. He is co-editor of two special issues and a book on contemporary media cultures.　

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
1 Introduction: What Are Digital Cultures? Grant Bollmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I Methods and Approaches
2 On Methods Grant Bollmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
3 Digital Textuality Leah Henrickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
4 The Political Economy of Digital Media Matthew P. McAllister, Zhenyu Zhang and Evelyn Gelan Yin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
5 Media Archaeology and Media Genealogy J. J. Sylvia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
6 Digital Ethnography Nick Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
7 Prescriptive Media and Autoethnographies of the Self Renée Ridgway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
8 Hybrid Space Revisited Adriana de Souza e Silva and Scott W. Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
9 Software Studies Jussi Parikka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
10 Computer Programming as a Method for the Study of Digital Cultures Guilherme Orlandini Heurich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
11 Decolonial Media Studies Stephen B. Crofts Wiley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
12 Repair Levent Soysal and Burak Kaynar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
13 Digital Ontology Sungyong Ahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
14 Analyzing Digital Media Practices to Define Digital Media Literacy Esther Haineaux and Anne-Sophie Collard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Part II Histories
15 History and Digital Cultures Grant Bollmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
16 Lessons from the Hologram Elizabeth Anne Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
17 Information Theory and its Detractors Thomas Sutherland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
18 Interface Carlos A. Scolari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
19 Barcodes and Digital/Physical Hybrids Jordan Frith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
20 Sharing Margie Borschke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
21 Advertising and Branding Lauren Hayden and Nicholas Carah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
22 Automation and Inequality Justine Humphry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Part III Identities
23 Digital Identities Grant Bollmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
24 Digital Culture and Race A. Joseph Dial and Kevin C. Winstead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
25 The Digital Closet and Queer Community Online William Beaman and Alexander Monea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
26 Tactical Queer Identity in China Liming Liu and Janno Yanjun He Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
27 Rurality, Gender, and Short-Video Platforms in China Bingxi Huang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
28 Digital Nomads Andrea Alarcón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
29 Boundaries of Digital Infrastructures in India Gayas Eapen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
30 Sensual Ethos and Digital Intimacies in Brazilian Camming Fernanda Veiverberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
31 Embodiment and Representation in Social VR Mai Ibrahim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
32 The Manosphere Alexis de Coning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
33 Digital Hate Luke Munn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Part IV Aesthetics
34 Digital Aesthetics and Collective Judgment Grant Bollmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
35 Screens and Power Pasi Väliaho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
36 Framing Digital Culture Yiğit Soncul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
37 Beyond the Frame Katherine Guinness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
38 The Weird Internet and Speculative Knowledge Malcolm Ogden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
39 The Weirdness of Generative AI Lisa Bode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
40 Supercuts James J. Hodge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
41 Futurisms Beyond Western Cultural Imaginaries Sushma Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
42 Color in Digital Culture Carolyn L. Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
Part V Materialities and Infrastructures
43 The Materiality of the Digital Grant Bollmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
44 The Logistical Episteme Ned Rossiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
45 Degrowth and Digital Culture Sy Taffel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	455
46 Digital Modeling and the Climate Crisis Rolien Hoyng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
47 Telehealth Emma Bedor Hiland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
48 The Culture and Cultures of Twitch Mark R. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483
49 Edge Computing Ragan Glover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491
50 Humanoid Robots Chris Chesher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

September 8, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111316857

Hardcover published on:

September 8, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111316581

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

550

Illustrations:

11

Coloured Illustrations:

9

Tables:

1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111316857

eBook ISBN: 9783111316857

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111316581

Keywords for this book

Digital Culture; Digital Technologies; Digital Media; Emerging Media; New Media and Society

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars and students of Digital Culture, Digital Studies, Digital Media, Cultural Studies and Media Sociology.

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