Table of contents:
New Media: A Critical Introduction
Introduction
1 NEW MEDIA AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
1.1 What are new media?
1.2 The characteristics of new media: some defining concepts
1.3 Change and continuity
1.4 What kind of history?
1.5 Who was dissatisfied with old media?
1.6 New media: determining or determined?
Bibliography
2. NEW MEDIA AND VISUAL CULTURE
2.1 New Technologies and Issues for Visual Culture
2.2 Visual Culture
2.3 Visuality
2.4 Could there be a distinct digital visual culture?
2.5 New image technologies
2.6 Immersive virtual reality
2.7 VR as a medium of art: a quantum leap forward?
2.8 Digital cinema
Bibliography
3 NETWORK USERS AND ECONOMICS
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Networks: communities, audiences and users
3.2 What is the internet?
3.3 Networks and identity
3.4 Learning to live in the interface
3.5 Networks and communities
3.6 Visionary communities
3.7 Defining community online
3.8 Networks as public spheres
3.9 The net as postmodern public sphere
3.10 Critique of the net as public sphere
3.11 The post-web internet
3.12 Remediation and economics
3.13 Towards theorising web users
3.14 Raymond Williams fixes base and superstructure
3.15 Media studies and political economy
3.16 The social form of new media
3.17 New media and post-industrial economies
3.18 The development of the new economy
3.19 Technological agency, economics and politics: inventions and developments
3.20 Technological agency, economics and politics: globalisation and telecommunications
3.21 The digital divide
3.22 Uneven globalisation
3.23 Investment in new media: intention and use
3.24 Intellectual property rights, determined and determining
3.25 Information as commodity
3.26 Fragmentation and convergence
3.27 Conclusion
Bibliography
4. NEW MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
4.1 Everyday life in cyberspace
4.2 The domestic shaping of new media
4.3 New media, identity and the everyday (very important indeed; should be articulated stronger)
4.4 Gameplay
Bibliography
5. CYBERCULTURE: TECHNOLOGY, NATURE AND CULTURE
5.1 Cyberculture and cybermetics
5.2 Revisiting determinism: physicalism, humanism and technology
5.3 Biological technologies: the history of automata
5.4 Theories of cyberculture (too abstract)
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
'A comprehensive and significant account of the origins and consequences of 'new media'. This book will prove invaluable to all theorists and practitioners and provides thought provoking insights into the relationships between media technologies, their makers and users.'N - Mark Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University
'The breadth and scope and critical awareness is impressive and it succeeds in systematically linking the main issues in the field to a cultural and media studies perspective.' - Tiziana Terranova, University of Essex
New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the authors consider the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assess the claims that a media and technological revolution is underway and formulate new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.
Topics covered introduce:
*Assessing the 'newness' of new media
*Defining the characteristics of new media
*Film, photographic realism and new forms of visual culture and entertainment
*Social and political uses of new media and new communications
*Everyday life and new media
*Cyborgs, cybernetics and cyberculture
*Theories of inactivity
*The history of automata and artificial life
Illustrated with over seventy photographs, images, tables and line drawings, key features of this textbook include:
*A user's guide
*A glossary of key terms and concepts
*Boxed case studies and examples
*Key terms defined in the margins with extensive cross-referencing
*Extensive bibliographies and web resources to help with further study
New Media: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the culture, history and technologies of new media, covering everything from CR-ROMs to modems, websites and Virtual Reality headsets.
New Media: A Critical Introduction
Introduction
1 NEW MEDIA AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
1.1 What are new media?
1.2 The characteristics of new media: some defining concepts
1.3 Change and continuity
1.4 What kind of history?
1.5 Who was dissatisfied with old media?
1.6 New media: determining or determined?
Bibliography
2. NEW MEDIA AND VISUAL CULTURE
2.1 New Technologies and Issues for Visual Culture
2.2 Visual Culture
2.3 Visuality
2.4 Could there be a distinct digital visual culture?
2.5 New image technologies
2.6 Immersive virtual reality
2.7 VR as a medium of art: a quantum leap forward?
2.8 Digital cinema
Bibliography
3 NETWORK USERS AND ECONOMICS
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Networks: communities, audiences and users
3.2 What is the internet?
3.3 Networks and identity
3.4 Learning to live in the interface
3.5 Networks and communities
3.6 Visionary communities
3.7 Defining community online
3.8 Networks as public spheres
3.9 The net as postmodern public sphere
3.10 Critique of the net as public sphere
3.11 The post-web internet
3.12 Remediation and economics
3.13 Towards theorising web users
3.14 Raymond Williams fixes base and superstructure
3.15 Media studies and political economy
3.16 The social form of new media
3.17 New media and post-industrial economies
3.18 The development of the new economy
3.19 Technological agency, economics and politics: inventions and developments
3.20 Technological agency, economics and politics: globalisation and telecommunications
3.21 The digital divide
3.22 Uneven globalisation
3.23 Investment in new media: intention and use
3.24 Intellectual property rights, determined and determining
3.25 Information as commodity
3.26 Fragmentation and convergence
3.27 Conclusion
Bibliography
4. NEW MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
4.1 Everyday life in cyberspace
4.2 The domestic shaping of new media
4.3 New media, identity and the everyday (very important indeed; should be articulated stronger)
4.4 Gameplay
Bibliography
5. CYBERCULTURE: TECHNOLOGY, NATURE AND CULTURE
5.1 Cyberculture and cybermetics
5.2 Revisiting determinism: physicalism, humanism and technology
5.3 Biological technologies: the history of automata
5.4 Theories of cyberculture (too abstract)
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
'A comprehensive and significant account of the origins and consequences of 'new media'. This book will prove invaluable to all theorists and practitioners and provides thought provoking insights into the relationships between media technologies, their makers and users.'N - Mark Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University
'The breadth and scope and critical awareness is impressive and it succeeds in systematically linking the main issues in the field to a cultural and media studies perspective.' - Tiziana Terranova, University of Essex
New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the authors consider the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assess the claims that a media and technological revolution is underway and formulate new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.
Topics covered introduce:
*Assessing the 'newness' of new media
*Defining the characteristics of new media
*Film, photographic realism and new forms of visual culture and entertainment
*Social and political uses of new media and new communications
*Everyday life and new media
*Cyborgs, cybernetics and cyberculture
*Theories of inactivity
*The history of automata and artificial life
Illustrated with over seventy photographs, images, tables and line drawings, key features of this textbook include:
*A user's guide
*A glossary of key terms and concepts
*Boxed case studies and examples
*Key terms defined in the margins with extensive cross-referencing
*Extensive bibliographies and web resources to help with further study
New Media: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the culture, history and technologies of new media, covering everything from CR-ROMs to modems, websites and Virtual Reality headsets.