New media : a critical introduction
Title:
New media : a critical introduction
Author:
Lister, Martin, 1947-
ISBN:
9780415223775
9780415223782
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Physical Description:
vi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
New media and new technologies -- New media and visual culture -- Networks, users and economics -- New media in everyday life -- Cyberculture : technology, nature and culture.
Abstract:
New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, technologies and history and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the authors consider the ways in which "new media" really are new, assess the claims that a media and technological revolution is underway and formulate new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies. Individual chapters introduce: Assessing the "newness" of new media; How to define the characteristics of new media; Film, photography and new forms of visual culture and entertainment; Social and political uses of new media and new communications; New media technologies, politics and globalization; Everyday life and new media; Cyborgs, cybernetics and cyberculture; Theories of interactivity; and The history of automata and artificial life [Publisher description].
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