Understanding New Media

Critical, broad and extensively researched, Understanding New Media remains the essential guide to the new media world, with expanded coverage of key topics, including digital participation, extreme pornography and online radicalization and engaging case studies on topics such as selfies, trolling and gaming addiction.

The new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, that we are able to understand and explain the complexity of our digital world.

Understanding New Media gives students the tools and the knowledge they need to make sense of the relationship between technologies, media and society. This best-selling student introduction:

• Makes complex ideas accessible, clearly explaining the key thinkers, theories and research students need to understand
• Brings theory to life with a range of new case studies, from selfies or trolling, to the app economy and algorithms in social media
• Gets students started on projects and essays with guided research activities, showing them how to successfully put learning into practice

• Provides guided further reading, helping students to navigate the literature and extend their studies beyond the chapter
  Understanding New Media remains the perfect guide to the past, present and future of the new media world. It is a vital resource for students across media and communication studies and sociology, and anyone exploring new media, social media or digital media.

  Autorentext
  Eugenia Siapera is a Professor of Digital Technology, Society and Policy at University College Dublin where she is also the Director of the Centre for Digital Policy (with Elizabeth Farries). Her research interests are in the area of digital media and technologies and their intersections with questions of social justice. She has published widely on topics such as race and digital racism, platform governance, digital journalism, and online misogyny.

  Klappentext

  Understanding New Media

  Zusammenfassung
  Critical, broad and extensively researched, Understanding New Media remains the essential guide to the new media world, with expanded coverage of key topics, including digital participation, extreme pornography and online radicalization and engaging case studies on topics such as selfies, trolling and gaming addiction.

  Inhalt

  Preface

  1. Understanding New Media
  2. The Political Economy of New Media
  3. Politics and Citizenship
  4. Divides, Participation and Inequality
  5. New Media Uses and Abuses
  6. Security, Surveillance and Safety
  7. New Media and Journalism
  8. Mobile Media and Everyday Life
  9. New Media and Identity
  10. Socialities and Social Media
  11. Games and Gaming
  12. The Future of New Media