A Companion to New Media Dynamics
ISBN: 9781444332247 | 1444332244
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 2/25/2013
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With the term 'new media' in use for decades now, one wonders if innovative digital forms and platforms can still be considered 'new' at all. Yet even as the lines have grown blurred between 'new' and 'traditional' media forms, there is much to learn about the dynamics surrounding the growth and adoption of new media. 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. Con... MORE
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns
Part 1 - Approaches and Antecedents
1. Media Studies and New Media Studies
Sean Cubitt
2. The Future of Digital Humanities Is a Matter of Words
Willard McCarty
3. Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History: The ‘Gutenberg Parenthesis’ as Restoration Topos
Thomas Pettitt
4. Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media: Dynamics o... MORE
5. The Economics of New Media
John Quiggin
6. The End of Audiences? Theoretical Echoes of Reception amidst the Uncertainties of Use
Sonia Livingstone and Ranjana Das
7. The Emergence of Next Generation Internet Users
William H. Dutton and Grant Blank
8. National Web Studies: The Case of Iran Online
Richard Rogers, Esther Weltevrede, Sabine Niederer and Erik Borra
Part 2 – Dynamics of Change
Agency
9. In the Habitus of the New: Structure, Agency and the Social Media Habitus
Zizi Papacharissi and Emily Easton
10. Long Live Wikipedia? Sustainable Volunteerism and the Future of Crowdsourced Knowledge
Andrew Lih
Mobility
11. Changing Media with Mobiles
Gerard Goggin
12. Make Room for the Wii: Game Consoles and the Construction of Space
Ben Aslinger
Enterprise
13. Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers and Makers
Charles Leadbeater
14. The Dynamics of Digital Multisided Media Markets: How Media Organisations Learn from the IT Industries How to Engage with an Active Audience
Patrik Wikström
Search
15. Search and Networked Attention
Alexander Halavais
16. Against Search – Towards a New Computational Logic of Media Accessibility
Pelle Snickars
Network
17. Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mobile Web
Indrek Ibrus
18. Pseudonyms and the Rise of the Real Name Web
Bernie Hogan
Surveillance
19. New Media and Changing Perceptions of Surveillance
Anders Albrechtslund
20. Lessons of the Leak: WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and the Changing Landscape of Media and Politics
Christoph Bieber
Part 3 – Forms, Platforms and Practices
Culture and Identity
21. Cybersexuality and Online Culture
Feona Attwood
22. Micro-celebrity and the Branded Self
Theresa M. Senft
23. Online Identity
Alice E. Marwick
24. Practices of Networked Identity
Jan-Hinrik Schmidt
Politics, Participation, Citizenship
25. The Internet and the Opening Up of Political Space
Stephen Coleman
26. The Internet as a Platform for Civil Disobedience
Cherian George
27. Parody, Performativity, and Play: The Reinvigoration of Citizenship through Political Satire
Jeffrey P. Jones
28. The Politics of Platforms
Tarleton Gillespie
29. From Homepages to Network Profiles: Balancing Personal and Social Identity
Axel Bruns
Knowledge and New Generations
30. The New Media Toolkit
Mark Pesce
31. Materiality, Description and Comparison as Tools for Cultural Difference Analysis
Basile Zimmermann
32. Learning from Network Dysfunctionality: Accidents, Enterprise and Small Worlds of Infection
Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson
33. Young People Online
Lelia Green and Danielle Brady
34. Beyond Generations and New Media
Kate Crawford and Penelope Robinson
Index
John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His books include Creative Industries (2005), Television Truths (2008), Story Circle (2009), and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (2012).
Jean Burgess is Deputy Director, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. She is co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (2009), and co-editor of Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (2012).
Axel Bruns is Associate Professor, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005).
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