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E-book
Author Gane, Nicholas

Title New Media : the Key Concepts
Published Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Series Key concepts
Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTSAND MEDIA; 2 NETWORK; 3 INFORMATION; 4 INTERFACE; 5 ARCHIVE; 6 INTERACTIVITY; 7 SIMULATION; 8 CONCLUSION; QUESTIONS FOR ESSAYS ANDCLASSROOM DISCUSSION; ANNOTATED GUIDE TOFURTHER READING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile interfaces and Internet cultures are re-configuring our everyday lives and experiences. To understand these changes, a new theoretical imagination is needed, one that is informed by a conceptual vocabulary that is able to cope with the daunting complexity of the world today. This book draws on writings by leading social and cultural theorists to assemble this vocabulary. It addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the impact of new media on contemporary society and culture: informa
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Subject Digital media.
Digital media -- Social aspects
Digital communications.
Digital communications -- Social aspects
Mass media -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Information society.
Media studies.
Popular culture.
Social Science -- Media Studies.
Digital communications
Digital communications -- Social aspects
Digital media
Digital media -- Social aspects
Information society
Form Electronic book
Author Beer, David
ISBN 9781847884626
1847884628
9781847886163
1847886167