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| New Media: A Critical Introduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Media and New Technologies | |
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| What are new media? | |
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| The characteristics of new media: some defining concepts | |
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| Change and continuity | |
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| What kind of history? | |
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| Who was dissatisfied with old media? | |
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| New media: determining or determined? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Media and Visual Culture | |
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| New Technologies and Issues for Visual Culture | |
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| Visual Culture | |
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| Visuality | |
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| Could there be a distinct digital visual culture? | |
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| New image technologies | |
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| Immersive virtual reality | |
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| VR as a medium of art: a quantum leap forward? | |
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| Digital cinema | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Networks: communities, audiences and users | |
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| What is the internet? | |
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| Networks and identity | |
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| Learning to live in the interface | |
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| Networks and communities | |
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| Visionary communities | |
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| Defining community online | |
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| Networks as public spheres | |
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| The net as postmodern public sphere | |
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| Critique of the net as public sphere | |
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| The post-web internet | |
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| Remediation and economics | |
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| Towards theorising web users | |
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| Raymond Williams fixes base and superstructure | |
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| Media studies and political economy | |
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| The social form of new media | |
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| New media and post-industrial economies | |
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| The development of the new economy | |
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| Technological agency, economics and politics: inventions and developments | |
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| Technological agency, economics and politics: globalisation and telecommunications | |
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| The digital divide | |
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| Uneven globalisation | |
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| Investment in new media: intention and use | |
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| Intellectual property rights, determined and determining | |
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| Information as commodity | |
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| Fragmentation and convergence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| New Media in Everyday Life | |
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| Everyday life in cyberspace | |
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| The domestic shaping of new media | |
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| New media, identity and the everyday (very important indeed | |
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| Should be articulated stronger) | |
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| Gameplay | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cyberculture: Technology, Nature and Culture | |
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| Cyberculture and cybermetics | |
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| Revisiting determinism: physicalism, humanism and technology | |
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| Biological technologies: the history of automata | |
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| Theories of cyberculture (too abstract) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |