THE NEW MEDIA THEORY READER

Book Details

• Author: Robert Hassan & Julian Thomas (Editors)

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Binding: Hardcover

• Release Date: 01-01-2017

• ISBN: 9788131608616

• Languages: English

• Pages: 356 pages

• Sale Territory: India

About the Book
The New Media Theory Reader offers an in-depth exploration of the dynamic issues surrounding new media in contemporary culture. It delves into vital topics such as the ownership and control of information, the political implications of new communication technologies, the role of users and consumers in disrupting established economic models, and the transformation of space and time through new media. This collection compiles crucial readings from a wide range of disciplines, including media studies, cultural history, economics, law, and politics, to critically examine what new media is, its origins, its effects on our daily lives, and how it is managed.

This volume includes a general introduction and individual introductions to each thematic section, providing summaries for each reading. The New Media Theory Reader is an essential resource for students and scholars in media studies, technology, sociology, and related fields, offering a comprehensive overview of new media's historical and contemporary implications.

Contents

• PART 1: Media Transitions

  • What is New Media? by Lev Manovich

  • Technological Revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth by S.D. Noam Cook

  • A Shadow Darkens by Ithiel de Sola Pool

  • The Consumer’s Sublime by David E. Nye

  • The Computational Metaphor by Kevin Kelly

  • New Communications Technology: A Survey of Impacts and Issues by Michael Marien

• PART 2: Governing New Media

  • Historicising Obscenity Law by David Saunders, Ian M. Hunter, and Dugald Williamson

  • The Tragedy of Broadcast Regulation by Bruce M. Owen

  • Broadcasting Policy in the Digital Age by Andrew Graham

  • From Public Sphere to Cybernetic State by Kevin Robins and Frank Webster

  • Policing the Thinkable by Robert W. McChesney

  • The Myths of Encroaching Global Media Ownership by Benjamin Compaine

• PART 3: Properties and Commons

  • Copyright in Historical Perspective by Lyman Ray Patterson

  • Intellectual Property and the Liberal State by James Boyle

  • Choosing Metaphors by Jessica Litman

  • The Promise for Intellectual Property in Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig

  • Why Software Should Not Have Owners by Richard Stallman

• PART 4: Politics of New Media Technologies

  • On Interactivity by Andrew Barry

  • Pangloss, Pandora, or Jefferson? by Benjamin R. Barber

  • Citizens by Cass Sunstein

  • Abstraction/Class by McKenzie Wark

• PART 5: Time and Space in the Age of Information

  • Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph by James Carey

  • Reflections on Time, Time-Space Compression and Technology in the Nineteenth Century by Jeremy Stein

  • On the Move: Technology, Mobility, and the Mediation of Social Time and Space by Nicola Green

  • Time and the Internet by Heejin Lee and Jonathan Liebenau

  • Speed is Contagious by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

About the Author / Editor

• Robert Hassan is a Senior Research Fellow in Media and Communications at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Chronoscopic Society (2003) and Media, Politics and the Network Society (Open University Press, 2004). He is also the editor of the journal Time & Society.

• Julian Thomas is the Director of the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University, Australia, and a Professorial Fellow in Media and Communications. He has written extensively on the social and policy dimensions of new media.