Media Convergence
Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life
Published on 13. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-230-22894-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on how everyday media such as Facebook, iTunes and Google can be understood in new ways for the 21st century through ideas of convergence. Key chapters explore the development of the internet, the rise of social media and the new opportunities for audiences to create, collaborate upon and share their own media.
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Edition
2011
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-22894-8 (9780230228948)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-35670-2
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
12/2011
Red Globe Press
€153.90
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Persons
GRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Culture at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of Interpreting News (2008) and Future Active: Media activism and the Internet (2003) and the co-editor of News Online: Transformations & Continuities (2010).
SHERMAN YOUNG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book (2007).
SHERMAN YOUNG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book (2007).
Content
Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Content, Computing, Communications.- Convergent Media Industries.- From Broadcast to Social Media.- Never Ending Stories.- Creative Audiences.- Making the Invisible Visible.- Time, Space and Convergent Media.- Regulation, Policy and Convergent Media.- Conclusion.- References.