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9781412947107

New Media

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    9781412947107

  • ISBN10:

    1412947103

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-02-03
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

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In the past 20 years, 'new media' has emerged as one of the most dynamic research fronts in media and communication, addressing the diversity and proliferation of new information and communication technologies and their social contexts. This growing field is both international and transdisciplinary. The editors have mined a rich collection of published material covering the historical, economic, social and behavioural issues at stake to trace the development and implications of new media.Vol 1. Visions & HistoriesThe first volume offers an historical overview, as well as the 'visions' of a society influenced by new media put forward by such influential scholars as McLuhan, Innis and Debord.Vol. 2 Technology: Artefacts, Systems, DesignThe second evolume introduces new media as comprised of artifacts (technologies, hardware, systems themselves & how they're designed and madeVol. 3 Social Institutions, Structures, ArrangementsThe third volume covers the social 'arrangements' behind new media: institutions, social structures, and culture broadly conceived)Vol. 4 Practices: Interaction, Identity, Organizing, CultureThe fourth volume focuses on practices, or what people do, covering human interaction, organizing, identity and cultural practices

Table of Contents

Visions, Histories, Mediation
Visions Laws of Media Constituents of a Theory of the Media
The Ecstasy of Communication
Separation perfected
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
The Culture of Under-determination
Histories
The Bias of Communication Annihilating Space, Time, and Difference: Experiments in cultural homogenization
Conclusions: Control as the engine of the information society
Introduction: A storm from paradise and technological innovation, diffusion, and suppression
Private Communication
Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the origins of virtual community
Mediation
Mediated Interpersonal Communication: Toward a new typology A Cultural Approach to Communication
Communication and Mediation
The Internet as Mass Medium
Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation
Cultural Change: The perception of the media and the mediation of its images
Volume 2
Technology and Society The Technology and Society Do Artefacts have Politics?
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Technologies, Texts, and Affordances
Communication Technologies in Transition
Farewell to the Information Age Technology and Ideology: The case of the telegraph
The Telephone System: Creator of mobility and social change
Youth Culture and the Shaping of Japanese Mobile Media: Personalization and the Keitai internet as multimedia
"Should one applaud?" Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technologies in Music
The Third Era of Television: Plenty
New Media Design and Development: Diffusion of innovations v social shaping of technology
Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City
Computers as Media
The Computer as a Communication Device
The Dynamo and the Computer: An historical perspective on the modern productivity paradox
Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and voices within the computer culture
Popularizing the Internet.
Shaping the Web: Why the politics of search engines matters
The Development of Interactive Games
Internet Research: For and against
Volume 3
Information Society: Debates The Post-industrial Society: A conceptual schema The Johoka Shakai Approach to the Study of Communication in Japan
Plan and Control: Towards a cultural history of the information society
Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society
Policy, Law and Regulation
Policies for Freedom The Internet and U.S. Communication Policy-making in Historical and Critical Perspective
Pool Media Policy Paradigm Shifts: Towards a new communications policy paradigm
Copyright and Commerce: The DMCA, trusted systems, and the stabilization of distribution
New Media Economics and Markets
The Public Teleco
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