ISBN:
3110266539
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3110271354
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9783110271355
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (XII, 576 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Series Statement:
Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS] v.5
Series Statement:
Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS] Ser v.5
Series Statement:
Handbooks of communication science
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Communication and technology
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Communication ; Technological innovations
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Communication and technology ; Technological innovations
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Information technology ; Technological innovations
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kommunikationswissenschaft
;
Medientechnik
Abstract:
Countless communication media have been developed throughout the history, ranging from handwriting to movable types press, from telegraph to telephone and radio, from photo to cinema and TV... This volume focuses on the latest (r)evolution, analyzing in detail digital communication technologies and especially the internet. Most recent developments are approached from a theoretical point of view, as well as within different communication contexts. Lorenzo Cantoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland; James A. Danowski, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract:
Countless communication media have been developed throughout the history, ranging from handwriting to movable types press, from telegraph to telephone and radio, from photo to cinema and TV... This volume focuses on the latest (r)evolution, analyzing in detail digital communication technologies and especially the internet. Most recent developments are approached from a theoretical point of view, as well as within different communication contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series; Contents; Introduction; Communication technologies: An itinerary; I. The history of communication technologies; 1. From orality to newspaper wire services: Conceptualizing a medium; 2. Point-to-point: telecommunications networks from the optical telegraph to the mobile telephone; 3. Cinema and technology: From painting to photography and cinema, up to digital motion pictures in theatres and on the net; 4. Recorded music; 5. Communication in video games: From players to player communities; 6. Hypermedia, internet and the web
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Virtuality: VR as metamedia and herald of our future realities8. Virtual communities and social networks; 9. Web 2.0 and 3.0; II. Communication technologies and their enviroment; 10. ICTs and the dialectics of development; 11. Information quality and information overload: The promises and perils of the information age; 12. User experience and usability; 13. Impact of new media: A corrective; 14. Research methods on the Internet; 15. Digital Natives, New Millennium Learners and Generation Y, does age matter? Data and reflection from the higher education context
Description / Table of Contents:
16. Mobile media and communication17. Legal issues in a networked world; 18. Ethical issues in Internet communication; III. Communication technologies and new practices of communication in the information and communication society; 19. Commerce; 20. Workplace relationships: Telework, worklife balance, social support, negative features, and individual/organizational outcomes; 21. Marketing and public relations; 22. From electronic governance to policydriven electronic governance - evolution of technology use in government
Description / Table of Contents:
23. Technology and terrorism: Media symbiosis and the "dark side" of the web24. Religion; 25. Learning; 26. Communication technology and health: The advent of ehealth applications; 27. New media in travel and tourism communication: Toward a new paradigm; 28. Journalism: From delivering information to engaging citizen dialogue; 29. Libraries in the digital age: Technologies, innovation, shared resources and new responsibilities; 30. The sciences are discursive constructs: The communication perspective as an empirical philosophy of science; Biographical sketches; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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