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YouTube, blogging, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life and other "new new media" aretransforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect Presidents to how we watch television. New New Mediadetails the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.

Paul Levinson is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. Professor Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC), and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Top 10 Academic Twitterers” in 2009. Paul Levinson's eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel)., Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards.

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Why ""New New"" Media?	p. 1
New New Media Encompass Prior New Media Principles	p. 3
Why ""New New"" Rather Than Social Media, Screen Arts, or Web 2.0 or 3.0?	p. 4
Categories of New New Media	p. 5
Speed in New New Media Evolution Not Only in Software but Hardware	p. 8
The Prime Methodology: Learning by Doing	p. 8
The Order and Content of the Chapters	p. 11
Blogging	p. 17
A Thumbnail History of Electronic Writing	p. 18
Blogging About Anything, Forever	p. 19
Comment Moderation	p. 20
Commenting on the Blogs of Others	p. 21
Comments as Correctors	p. 22
MySpace Message from Stringer Bell of ""The Wire""	p. 23
Changing the Words in Your Blog After Publication	p. 25
Long-Range Blogging and Linking	p. 26
Group Blogging	p. 27
Monetizing Your Blog	p. 28
Is Monetization Incompatible with the Ideals of Blogging?	p. 33
Dressing Up Your Blog with Images, Videos and Widgets	p. 35
Gauging the Readership of Your Blog	p. 36
Different Blogging Platforms	p. 37
Are Bloggers Entitled to the Same First Amendment Protection as Old-Media Journalists?	p. 38
Bloggers and Lobbyists	p. 40
Anonymity in Blogging	p. 42
Blogging for Others	p. 43
Changing the World with Your Blog	p. 46
A Town Supervisor and His Blog	p. 47
""Bloggers in Pajamas""	p. 48
The Blogosphere Is Not Monolithic and Not All-Powerful	p. 50
Further Tensions Between New New Media and Older Forms	p. 52
The Need for Old-Media Reporting in an Age of New New Media Journalism	p. 54
Old Media and New New Media Symbiosis: Easter Eggs for ""Lost"" and ""Fringe""	p. 56
Youtube	p. 58
""Obama Girl""	p. 58
YouTube Presidential Primary Debates	p. 60
Telegenic + YouTube = Cybergenic	p. 62
YouTube Undeniability and Democracy	p. 64
YouTube Usurps Television as a Herald of Public Events	p. 65
YouTube Is Not Only Omni-Accessible and Free to Viewers-It's Free to Producers	p. 66
Obama as the New FDR in New New Media as Well as the New New Deal	p. 67
Amateur YouTube Stars and Producers	p. 68
Viral Videos	p. 70
Viral Videos Gone Bad	p. 71
The YouTube Revolution in Popular Culture	p. 72
Roy Orbison's Guitar	p. 73
""My Guitar Gently Weeps"" Through the Ages	p. 73
YouTube Retrieves MTV	p. 74
Will YouTube Put iTunes Out of Business?	p. 75
YouTube Refutes Lewis Mumford and Turns the Videoclip into a Transcript	p. 76
Tim Russert, 1950-2008	p. 77
YouTube's Achilles' Heel: Copyright	p. 77
Comments as Verifiers on YouTube: The Fleetwoods	p. 80
The Pope's Channel	p. 81
YouTube as International Information Liberator	p. 82
Wikipedia	p. 84
Pickles and Pericles	p. 85
Inclusionists vs. Exclusionists: Battle Between Wikipedian Heroes	p. 86
Neutrality of Editors and Conflicts of Interest	p. 88
Identity Problems	p. 89
All Wikipedians Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others	p. 90
Transparency on Wikipedia Pages	p. 92
Wikipedia vs. Britannica	p. 93
Old vs. New New Media in Reporting the Death of Tim Russert	p. 93
Wikipedia Wrongly Reports the ""Deaths"" of Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd	p. 94
Encyclopedia or Newspaper?	p. 95
Does Wikipedia Make Libraries Unnecessary?	p. 96
The United Kingdom vs. Wikipedia	p. 98
Digg	p. 100
Shouting, Paying for Diggs (and Buries)	p. 101
""Friends"" in New New Media	p. 102
Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama on Digg	p. 104
Ron Paul and the Older Media	p. 107
Reddit, Fark, Buzzflash and Digg Alternatives	p. 108
MySpace	p. 110
The Irresistible Appeal of ""Friends""	p. 110
""Cyberbullying"" on MySpace	p. 112
New New Media Provide Medicine for Cyberbullying	p. 113
MySpace as One-Stop Social Media Cafeteria	p. 114
MySpace Music and New New Media	p. 114
MySpace Poetry	p. 117
MySpace ""Bones"": Cooperation Between Old Media Narratives and New New Media	p. 118
Facebook	p. 120
MySpace vs. Facebook: Subjective Differences	p. 120
MySpace vs. Facebook: Objective Differences	p. 122
Facebook Friends as a Knowledge-Base Resources	p. 122
Facebook Friends as Real-Time Knowledge Resources	p. 123
Facebook Groups as Social and Political Forces	p. 125
Facebook as Myriad Local Political Pubs	p. 126
Meeting Online Friends in the Real World	p. 128
Reconnecting with Old Friends Online	p. 129
Protection for the ""Hidden Dimension"": Cleaning Up Your Online Pages	p. 130
Photos of Breastfeeding Banned on Facebook	p. 131
Twitter	p. 133
The Epitome of Immediacy	p. 134
Interpersonal + Mass Communication = Twitter	p. 135
Twitter as Smart T-Shirt or Jewelry	p. 136
Pownce and Other Twitter-Likes	p. 138
Twitter Dangers: The Congressman Who Tweeted Too Much	p. 138
Twitter vs. the Mullahs in Iran	p. 139
McLuhan as Microblogger	p. 141
Second Life	p. 143
History and Workings of Second Life	p. 145
Second Life and Real-Life Interface	p. 146
A Seminar in Second Life	p. 146
Kenny Hubble, Second Life Astronomer	p. 148
Sex in Second Life	p. 149
""Lost"" in Second Life	p. 151
Podcasting	p. 153
How Is a Podcast Made?	p. 154
Blueprint for a Podcast	p. 154
Podcast Storage and Distribution: Players, iTunes and RSS Feeds	p. 156
Case Study of Podcast Success: Grammar Girl	p. 157
Podcasts on Phones and in Cars	p. 158
Podiobooks	p. 159
Podcasts and Copyright: Podsafe Music	p. 159
Advertising on Podcasts	p. 161
Live Streaming	p. 164
Webinars and Vidcasts	p. 166
The Dark Side of New New Media	p. 168
Pre-New New Media Abuses: Bullying, Flaming, and Trolling	p. 169
Online Gossiping and Cyberbullying	p. 171
Cyberstalking	p. 173
Twittering and Terrorism	p. 174
The Craigslist Bank Heist	p. 175
Spam	p. 176
Old Media Overreaction to New New Abuses: The Library vs. the Blogger	p. 177
New New Media and The Election of 2008	p. 180
Obama ""Married the Internet to Community Organizing""	p. 181
New New Media VP Announcement Misstep	p. 181
Inauguration and After on the Internet	p. 182
The President and the BlackBerry	p. 183
White House Moves from Web 2.0 ""Dark Ages"" to New New Media	p. 185
Hardware	p. 186
The Inevitability of iPhone and Mobile Media	p. 187
The Price of Mobility	p. 188
The New New Media Exile of Useless Places	p. 189
Smartphones in the Car, in the Park, and in Bed	p. 189
Batteries as the Weak Spot	p. 190
iPhones, BlackBerrys, Bluetooth and Brains	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 192
Index	p. 217
About the Author	p. 226
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