New media : an introduction / Terry Flew.
By: Flew, Terry
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BookPublisher: South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press, 2002Edition: 2nd ed.Description: x, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0195550412; 9780195550412.Subject(s): Technological innovations | Digital communications -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Influence | Interactive multimedia -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Social aspects | Media Studies | Mass media -- Political aspects | Industrial / commercial art & design | Media studies | Sociology & anthropologyDDC classification: 302.23 FLE Summary: A comprehensive and accessible overview of the major forces shaping new media technologies and their social, cultural, political and economic impacts. New media developments are seen in the book as being framed around wider trends that include digitisation and creeping globalization.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main | 302.23 FLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000576227 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
New Media: An Introduction provides a comprehensive, accessible and timely overview of the major forces shaping new media technologies. It understands the new media not simply as forms of technological hardware, but also as 'social software', both shaping and being shaped by the social, cultural, political and economic environments in which they are developed and used. New media developments are analysed in relation to broader trends of digitisation, convergence, globalisation, interactivity, networking and the growth of creative industries in the context of the 'new' or 'creative economy'. In the second edition of New Media new material on computer games and Internet Law has been included, with particular reference to massive multi-player online games, the open source movement and the future of copyright and intellectual property regimes. Mobile telephony, wireless technologies, social software, indigenous new media initiatives and the rise of alternative online media forms are some of the new media developments discussed in this highly original and successful text book.
Previous ed.: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-280) and index.
A comprehensive and accessible overview of the major forces shaping new media technologies and their social, cultural, political and economic impacts. New media developments are seen in the book as being framed around wider trends that include digitisation and creeping globalization.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Introduction to New Media Technologies
- 2 New Media Technologies: History and Political Economy
- 3 New Media as Cultural Technologies
- 4 Virtual Cultures
- 5 Digital Media
- 6 Games: Technology, Industry, Culture
- 7 Creative Industries
- 8 Electronic Commerce and the Global Knowledge Economy
- 9 Online Media and the Future of Education
- 10 Globalisation and New Media
- 11 Internet Law and Policy