Communication and Technology

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Communication and Technology

Edited by: Lorenzo Cantoni and James A. Danowski

Volume 5 in the series Handbooks of Communication Science

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110271355

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About this book

The primary goal of the Communication and Technology volume (5th within the series "Handbooks of Communication Science") is to provide the reader with a comprehensive compilation of key scholarly literature, identifying theoretical issues, emerging concepts, current research, specialized methods, and directions for future investigations. The internet and web have become the backbone of many new communication technologies, often transforming older communication media, through digitization, to make them compatible with the net. Accordingly, this volume focuses on internet/web technologies. The essays cover various infrastructure technologies, ranging from different kinds of hard-wired elements to a range of wireless technologies such as WiFi, mobile telephony, and satellite technologies. Audio/visual communication is discussed with reference to large-format motion pictures, medium-sized television and video formats, and the small-screen mobile smartphone. There is also coverage of audio-only media, such as radio, music, and voice telephony; text media, in such venues as online newspapers, blogs, discussion forums and mobile texting; and multi-media technologies, such as games and virtual reality.

Three main sections: “Mediavolution”: communication media between evolution and revolution, Communication technologies and their environment, Communication technologies and new practices
Scholars from all over the world write more than 40 chapters

Author / Editor information

Lorenzo Cantoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland; James A. Danowski, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series Peter J. Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction
Communication technologies: An itinerary Lorenzo Cantoni and James A. Danowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
I. The history of communication technologies
1. From orality to newspaper wire services: Conceptualizing a medium Brett Oppegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Point-to-point: telecommunications networks from the optical telegraph to the mobile telephone Gabriele Balbi and Richard R. John Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. Cinema and technology: From painting to photography and cinema, up to digital motion pictures in theatres and on the net Alejandro Pardo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. Recorded music Tom McCourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Communication in video games: From players to player communities Marko Siitonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6. Hypermedia, internet and the web Stefano Tardini and Lorenzo Cantoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. Virtuality: VR as metamedia and herald of our future realities Rita M. Lauria and Jacquelyn Ford Morie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. Virtual communities and social networks Constance Elise Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
9. Web 2.0 and 3.0 Ulrike Gretzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
II. Communication technologies and their enviroment
10. ICTs and the dialectics of development Tim Unwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11. Information quality and information overload: The promises and perils of the information age Martin J. Eppler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12. User experience and usability Davide Bolchini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
13. Impact of new media: A corrective Brian Winston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
14. Research methods on the Internet Claire Hewson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
15. Digital Natives, New Millennium Learners and Generation Y, does age matter? Data and reflection from the higher education context Emanuele Rapetti and Francesc Pedró Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
16. Mobile media and communication Wenhong Chen and Rich Ling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
17. Legal issues in a networked world Joanna Kulesza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
18. Ethical issues in Internet communication Adriano Fabris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
III. Communication technologies and new practices of communication in the information and communication society
19. Commerce Rolf T. Wigand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
20. Workplace relationships: Telework, worklife balance, social support, negative features, and individual/organizational outcomes Kevin B. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
21. Marketing and public relations Anne Linke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
22. From electronic governance to policydriven electronic governance – evolution of technology use in government Tomasz Janowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
23. Technology and terrorism: Media symbiosis and the “dark side” of the web Aziz Douai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
24. Religion Pauline Hope Cheong and Daniel Arasa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
25. Learning Thomas C. Reeves and Patricia M. Reeves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
26. Communication technology and health: The advent of ehealth applications Gary L. Kreps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
27. New media in travel and tourism communication: Toward a new paradigm Alessandro Inversini, Zheng Xiang and Daniel R. Fesenmaier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
28. Journalism: From delivering information to engaging citizen dialogue John V. Pavlik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513
29. Libraries in the digital age: Technologies, innovation, shared resources and new responsibilities Stephen M. Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
30. The sciences are discursive constructs: The communication perspective as an empirical philosophy of science Loet Leydesdorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
Biographical sketches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	563
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Institutes, libraries, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars and everyone interested in the whole area of communication studies as well as people interested in communication and technology and its processes, such as linguists, communication scientists, journalists, teacher etc.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 576
Keywords: Information and Communication Technologies; Internet; Online Media; Online Communication

eBook

Published: August 31, 2015
ISBN: 9783110271355

Hardcover

Published: August 14, 2015
ISBN: 9783110266535