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A Companion to New Media Dynamics

ISBN: 978-1-119-00086-0

June 2015

Wiley-Blackwell

528 pages

Description
A Companion to New Media Dynamics presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cultural underpinnings of the media of the digital age in terms of dynamic change
  • Presents a state-of-the-art collection of original readings relating to new media in terms of dynamic change
  • Features interdisciplinary contributions encompassing the sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts
  • Addresses a wide range of issues from the ownership and regulation of new media to their form and cultural uses
  • Provides readers with a glimpse of new media dynamics at three levels of scale: the 'macro' or system level; the 'meso' or institutional level; and 'micro' or agency level
About the Author
John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His books include Creative Industries (2005), Television Truths (2008), Story Circle (2009), and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (2012).

Jean Burgess is Deputy Director, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. She is co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (2009), and co-editor of Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (2012).

Axel Bruns is Associate Professor, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005).