The new media invasion : digital technologies and the world they unmake / John David Ebert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebert, John David, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Technology and civilization.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the 15th century until the mid-1990s, media based on the printed word--books, magazines, handbills, newspapers, and journals--dominated society. Today, an onslaught of digital media centered on the Internet is developing at a breathtaking pace, destabilizing the very idea of printed media and fundamentally reshaping our world in the process. This study explores how Internet entities like Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google, and gadgets such as digital cameras, cell phones, video games, robots, drones, and all things MacIntosh have affected everything from the book industry an

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Incipit; Introduction to a Catastrophic Bifurcation; First, a Brief Note on the Self-Luminous Nature of the New Technologies; Part I: In Which the Internet Recreates the World-As-Cavern; Part II: A Collection of Gadgets for a Museum of the Future; Postscript on the Dialectic of Art and Technology; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28416-2

9786613284167

0-7864-8818-2

OCLC:

756484500