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Subject(s)

• Digital media—Social aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Lievrouw, Leah A. [Browse]
• Loader, Brian, 1958- [Browse]

Series

Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]

Summary note

What are we to make of our digital social lives and the forces that shape it? Should we feel fortunate to experience such networked connectivity? Are we privileged to have access to unimaginable amounts of information? Is it easier to work in a digital global economy? Or is our privacy and freedom under threat from digital surveillance? Our security and welfare being put at risk? Our politics undermined by hidden algorithms and misinformation? Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars from around the world, the Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication provides a comprehensive, unique, and multidisciplinary exploration of this rapidly growing and vibrant field of study. The Handbook adopts a three-part structural framework for understanding the sociocultural impact of digital media: the artifacts or physical devices and systems that people use to communicate; the communicative practices in which they engage to use those devices, express themselves, and share meaning; and the organizational and institutional arrangements, structures, or formations that develop around those practices and artifacts. Comprising a series of essay-chapters on a wide range of topics, this volume crystallizes current knowledge, provides historical context, and critically articulates the challenges and implications of the emerging dominance of the network and normalization of digitally mediated relations. Issues explored include the power of algorithms, digital currency, gaming culture, surveillance, social networking, and connective mobilization. More than a reference work, this Handbook delivers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the state of new media scholarship and its most important future directions that will shape and animate current debates.

Source of description

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Contents

• Introduction / Leah A. Lievrouw and Brian D. Loader
• part 1. Artifacts. The hearth of darkness: living within occult infrastructures / Stephen C. Slota, Aubrey Slaughter and Geoffrey C. Bowker
• Mobile media artifacts: genealogies, haptic visualities, and speculative gestures / Lee Humphreys and Larissa Hjorth
• Digital embodiment and financial infrastructures / Kaitlyn Wauthier and Radhika Gajjala
• Ubiquity / Paul Dourish
• Interfaces and affordances / Matt Ratto, Curtis McCord, Dawn Walker, and Gabby Resch
• Hacking / Finn Brunton
• (Big) data and algorithms: looking for meaningful patterns / Taina Bucher
• Archive fever revisited: algorithmic archons and the ordering of social media / David Beer
• part 2. Practices. The practice of identity: development, expression, performance, form / Mary Chayko
• Our digital social life / Irina Shklovski
• Digital literacies in a wireless world / Antero Garcia
• Family practices and digital technology / Nancy Jennings
• Youth, algorithms and the problem of political data / Veronica Vivi Barassi
• What remains of digital democracy? Contemporary political cleavages and democratic practices / Brian D. Loader
• Journalism's digital publics: researching the 'visual citizen' / Stuart Allan and Chris Peters
• News curation, war and conflict / Holly Steel
• Information, technology, and work: proletarianization, precarity, piecework / Leah A. Lievrouw and Britt S. Paris
• Automated surveillance / Mark Andrejevic
• part 3. Arrangements. Deep mediatization: media institutions' changing relations to the social / Nick Couldry
• Fluid hybridity: organizational form and formlessness in the digital age / Shiv Ganesh and Cynthia Stoh
• All the lonely people? The continuing lament about the loss of community / Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman
• Distracted by technologies and captured by the public sphere / Natalie Fenton
• Social movements, communication and media / Elena Pavan and Donatella della Porta
• Governance and regulation / Peng Hwa Ang
• Property and the construction of the information economy: a neo-polanyian ontology / Julie E. Cohen
• Globalization and post-globalization / Terry Flew
• Toward a sustainable information society: a global political economy perspective / Jack Linchuan Qiu - Index.

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ISBN

1-315-61655-6

OCLC

1198978596

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