Digital Culture: Understanding New Media

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16 déc. 2008 - 224 pages
    Everything you need to know about new media in one accessible, easy to navigate volume!
From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Theft Auto to Second Life - this book explores new media’s most important issues and debates in an accessible and engaging text for newcomers to the field.

With technological change continuing to unfold at an incredible rate, Digital Cultures rounds-up major events in the media’s recent past to help develop a clear understanding of the theoretical and practical debates that surround this emerging discipline. It addresses issues such as:

  • What is new media?
  • How is new media changing our lives?
  • Is new media having a positive or negative effect on culture and human communication?
Each chapter contains case studies which provide an interesting and lively balance between the well-trodden and the newly emerging themes in the field.

Topics covered include digital television, digital cinema, gaming, digital democracy, mobile phones, the World Wide Web, digital news, online social networking, music and multimedia, virtual communities and the digital divide.

Digital Cultures is an essential introductory guide for all media and communication studies students, as well as those with a general interest in new media and its impact on the world around us.

 

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Table des matières

Introduction
1
theorizing New Media
11
Navigating theWorldWideWeb
30
high definitions
46
virtual screens
61
platforms programmes and players
76
production distribution and consumption
92
mobility interactivity and identity
107
scarcity inequality and conflict
122
enhancing the public sphere
139
everywhere always on
157
Appendix
170
Bibliography
179
Index
199
Back cover
206
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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

Glen Creeber is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Aberystwyth University, UK.

Royston Martin is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and lectures at the University of Wales, UK.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreDigital Culture: Understanding New Media
UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Media, Film & Cultural Studies
AuteursGlen Creeber, Royston Martin
ÉditeurMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2008
ISBN0335237541, 9780335237548
Longueur224 pages
  
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