Format:
Online-Ressource (215 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781136186073
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9780415638630
Content:
Media Studies 2.0 offers an exploration of the digital revolution and its consequences for media and communication studies, arguing that the new era requires an upgraded discipline: a media studies 2.0.The book traces the history of mass-media and computing, exploring their merger at the end of the twenty-century and the material, ecological, cultural and personal elements of this digital transformation. It considers the history of media and communication studies, arguing that the academic discipline was a product of the analogue, broadcast-era, emerging in the early twentieth century as a res
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: media studies gone wrong; 1 Two trajectories: the rise of mass media and computing; 2 The material revolution: becoming digital; 3 The ecological revolution: convergence and hybridity; 4 The cultural revolution: the post-broadcast era; 5 The me-dia revolution: the second reformation; 6 Mass media studies: the rise of duck science; 7 The emperor's old clothes: why media studies didn't work; 8 Upgrading the discipline: Media Studies 2.0; 9 The 21st-century discipline: user studies and the productive turn
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10 Open sourcing knowledge: towards a university 2.011 Conclusion: 'shit just got real'; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
9780415638623
Additional Edition:
Print version Media Studies 2.0
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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