Book description
A Companion to New Media Dynamics presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cultural underpinnings of the media of the digital age in terms of dynamic change
Presents a state-of-the-art collection of original readings relating to new media in terms of dynamic change
Features interdisciplinary contributions encompassing the sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts
Addresses a wide range of issues from the ownership and regulation of new media to their form and cultural uses
Provides readers with a glimpse of new media dynamics at three levels of scale: the 'macro' or system level; the 'meso' or institutional level; and 'micro' or agency level
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introducing Dynamics
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Part 1: Approaches and Antecedents
- Chapter 1: Media Studies and New Media Studies
- Chapter 2: The Future of Digital Humanities Is a Matter of Words
- Chapter 3: Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History: The “Gutenberg Parenthesis” as Restoration Topos
- Chapter 4: Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media: Dynamics of Evolution and Change
- Chapter 5: The Economics of New Media
- Chapter 6: The End of Audiences?: Theoretical Echoes of Reception Amid the Uncertainties of Use
- Chapter 7: The Emergence of Next-Generation Internet Users
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Chapter 8: National Web Studies: The Case of Iran Online
- Introduction: National Web Studies
- Blocked yet Blogging: The Special Case of Iran
- Defining National Websites, and the Implications for National Web Capture
- Demarcating the Iranian Web: Studying the Outputs of Device Cultures
- Device Cultures: How Websites are Valued, and Ranked
- Analyzing the Characteristics of the Iranian Webs: Language and Responsiveness
- The Iranian Web and Its Languages
- The Iranian Web and Responsiveness
- The Iranian Web and Internet Censorship
- The Iranian Web and Freshness
- Conclusion: National Web Health Index
- Acknowledgments
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Part 2: Issues and Identities
- Agency
- Mobility
- Enterprise
- Search
- Network
- Surveillance
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Part 3: Forms, Platforms, and Practices
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Culture and Identity
- Chapter 21: Cybersexuality and Online Culture
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Chapter 22: Microcelebrity and the Branded Self
- Introduction: Identity Crisis
- Online Identity: Media, Naming, Doing
- The Internet as Marketplace; Users as Sellers, Buyers, Goods
- The Branded Self Online: The Paradox of Late Capitalism
- From Subculture Stars to Microcelebrity Practices
- Immaterial Labor and the “Attention” Economy
- The Super-public and the Rise of Strange Familiarity
- Chapter 23: Online Identity
- Chapter 24: Practices of Networked Identity
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Politics, Participation, and Citizenship
- Chapter 25: The Internet and the Opening Up of Political Space
- Chapter 26: The Internet as a Platform for Civil Disobedience
- Chapter 27: Parody, Performativity, and Play: The Reinvigoration of Citizenship through Political Satire
- Chapter 28: The Politics of “Platforms”
- Chapter 29: From Homepages to Network Profiles: Balancing Personal and Social Identity
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Knowledge and New Generations
- Chapter 30: The New Media Toolkit
- Chapter 31: Materiality, Description, and Comparison as Tools for Cultural Difference Analysis
- Chapter 32: Learning from Network Dysfunctionality: Accidents, Enterprise, and Small Worlds of Infection
- Chapter 33: Young People Online
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Culture and Identity
- Index
Product information
- Title: A Companion to New Media Dynamics
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2015
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781119000860
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