New Media A Critical Introduction

Name: New Media A Critical Introduction
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ISBN: 9780415223775

ISBN-10: 0415223776

ISBN-13: 9780415223775

Edition: 2003

Authors: Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly, Seth Giddings

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'A comprehensive and significant account of the origins and consequences of 'new media'. This book will prove invaluable to all theorists and practitioners and provides thought provoking insights into the relationships between media technologies, their makers and users.'N- Mark Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University'The breadth and scope and critical awareness is impressive and it succeeds in systematically linking the main issues in the field to a cultural and media studies perspective.'- Tiziana Terranova, University of EssexNew Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for…

Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/25/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English




New media and New Technologies



What are the New Media?



The Characteristic s of New Media: some defining concepts



Change and Continuity



What Kind of History?



Who was Dissatisfied with Old Media?



What is a Medium: New or Otherwise?: The Williams/Mcluhan Debate



Virtual Reality and Visual Culture



VR, Art and Visual Culture



Digital Cinema



New Media Networks



New Media Networks: 'The Information Economy'



Economic Epochs and 'Old Media'



Political Economy and Postmodernity



What is Political Economy ?



Political Economy and New Media



Post Industrial Economies



The Development of the New Economy



Technological Agency: Economics and Politics - Inventions and Developments



Technological Agency: Economics and Politics - Globalisation and



Telecommunications



Beyond Economic Determinism



New Media and Intellectual Property Rights



Fragmentation and convergence



Consumer Surveillance



Cyborg Economics



Culture, Technology, Nature



Revisiting Determinism



Technology Evolving: Clockwork, Steam, Cybernetics)



New Media, Cyberspace and Everyday Life



Everyday Life in Cyberspace



Games and gaming



The cybernetic shaping of identity



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