New media : an introduction / Terry Flew & Richard Smith.
"This concise yet comprehensive survey examines the social, political and economic impacts of new media from the early days of the telegraph to the latest network technologies. Drawing on the views of the most important writers in the field, Terry Flew and Richard Smith explore such crucial to...
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| Main Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Don Mills, Ontario :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | Canadian edition. |
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| Summary: | "This concise yet comprehensive survey examines the social, political and economic impacts of new media from the early days of the telegraph to the latest network technologies. Drawing on the views of the most important writers in the field, Terry Flew and Richard Smith explore such crucial topics as social networking and online communities, blogging and game cultures, privacy and surveillance and copyright and internet governance, while giving special attention to the role of the new 'read-write-web', or 'Web 2.0'."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-283) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195431812 9780195431810 |