Title Living in the information age : a new media reader / [edited by] Erik P. Bucy

Edition Second edition Published Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Thomson Learning, [2005] ©2005

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MELB	302.23 Buc/Lit 2005		AVAILABLE

Description xiv, 338 pages ; 24 cm Series Wadsworth series in mass communication and journalism Wadsworth series in mass communication and journalism. Contents I. The new information and entertainment ecology: The communications revolution -- New media theory -- II. Convergence and concentration in the media industries: Convergence, content, and interactivity -- Media concentration -- New technologies, the self and social life: At the interface: new intimacies, new cultures -- Media saturation and the increasing velocity of everyday life -- IV. Social impacts of information and communications technologies: Networked computing: promises and paradoxes -- Questioning information technologies -- V. New technoogies and the public sphere: Electronic democracy -- The digital divide -- VI. Policing the elctronic world: issues and ethics: Copyright and regulation -- Privacy and surveillance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Mass media. Information society. Information technology -- Social aspects. Computers and civilization. Author Bucy, Erik P., 1963- ISBN 0534633404 paperback

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