ISBN:
9780415524155
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (319 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Frontiers in New Media Research
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Frontiers in new media research
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Internet Social aspects
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Social media
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Digital media
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Mass media Technological innovations
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Social aspects
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Mass media
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Technological innovations
;
Social aspects
;
Internet
;
Social aspects
;
Social media
;
Digital media
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Nachrichtenverkehr
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Politische Kommunikation
;
Internet
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Social Media
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World Wide Web 2.0
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Online-Medien
Abstract:
This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, existing social institutions, and the society at large at various levels of analysis. Macro-level analyses of changing techno-social formation - such as discussions of the rise of surveillance society and the "fifth estate" - are combined with studies on concrete and specific new media phenomena, such as
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Frontiers in New Media Research; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction: Challenges for New Media Research; PART I Techno-Social Formations; 2 What's the Use of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet?; 3 The Internet and Democratic Accountability: The Rise of the Fifth Estate; 4 Surveillance Technologies and Social Transformation: Emerging Challenges of Socio-Technical Change; 5 The Probability Archive: From Essence to Uncertainty in the Mediation of Knowledge; 6 The Internet and Social Mobilization in China
Description / Table of Contents:
PART II Recurring Issues7 Online Social Network Sites and the Concept of Social Capital; 8 A Retrospective on Convergence, Moral Panic, and the Internet; 9 The Emerging Ecology of Online News; 10 Who Would Miss Getting News Online and Why (Not)?; 11 The Influence of Third-Person Effects on Support for Restrictions of Internet Pornography among College Students in Shanghai and Hong Kong; PART III Emerging Media; 12 A Networked Self: Identity Performance and Sociability on Social Network Sites; 13 The Internet in Flux: Twitter and the Interpretative Flexibility of Microblogging
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Exploring the Pro-Am Interface between Production and Produsage15 Fanatical Labor and Serious Leisure: A Case of Fansubbing in China; 16 From TV to the Internet to Mobile Phones: A National Study of U.S. College Students' Multiplatform Video Use and Satisfaction; Contributors; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. I. Techno-social formations -- pt. II. Recurring issues -- pt. III. Emerging media.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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