Understanding digital culture / Vincent Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Vincent, author.

Series:

Core textbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication & Media Studies--Cultural Studies.

Communication & Media Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020.

Summary:

This is not simply a book about 'internet studies'. It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few) in order to explore how digital technology - in a broad sense - is used within the wider contexts of our everyday lives. "The first edition of Understanding Digital Culture set a new benchmark as the most comprehensive, scholarly and accessible introduction to the area. This latest edition, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, is even better - a perfectly balanced book that combines theory and empirical analysis to illuminate the cutting-edge of cultural and social change." - Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University.

Contents:

Introduction; Revolutionary Technologies?; The Structure of the Book; Chapter 1: Key Elements of Digital Media; Technical Processes; Cultural Forms; Immersive Experiences; Chapter 2: The Economic Foundations of the Information Age; Post-Industrialism; The Information Society; Post-Fordism and Globalisation; Informationalism and the Network Society; Weightless Economies, Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge; Chapter 3: Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience; Technological Convergence; Regulatory Convergence; Media Industry Convergence; Convergence Culture ad the Contemporary Media Experience; Producers, Consumers, Prosumers and 'Produsage'; Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life; The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy; Digital Surveillance: Spaces, Traces and Tools; The Rise Surveillance: Causes and Processes; Commercial Imperatives and the Political Economy of Surveillance; Why Care about a Surveillance Society?; Chapter 5: Information Politics and the Online Public Sphere; The Poltical Context of Information Politics; ICT-Enabled Politics; An Internet Public Sphere?; Chapter 6: Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism and Cyberware; Cybercrime: A Muddy Field; The Tools and Techniques of Cybercrime, Cyberactivism and Cyberwarfare; Cyber Politics by Another Means: Cyber Warfare; Chapter 7: Digital Identity; 'Objects to Think with': Early Internet Studies and Poststructuralism; Personal Homepages and the 'Re-Centring' of the Individual; Personal Blogging, Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self; Avatar and Identity; Social Networks, Profiles and Networked Identity; Who needs Identity?; Chapter 8: Digital Community? Space, Networks and Relationships; Searching for Lost Community: Urbanisation, Space and Scales of Experience; Globalisation, Technology and the Rise of Individualism; 'Virtual' Communities Over Before they Began?; Network Societies, Network Socialities and Networked Individualism; Being Together Online: Networks, Instrumentalism and Intimacy; Chapter 9: The Body and Information Technology; The Body, Technology and Society; The Posthuman; Technology, Embodiment Relations and 'Homo Faber'; Conclusion: Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure (Revisited).

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-03-623459-2

1-5264-1669-7

1-5264-1670-0

9781036234591

OCLC:

1257659128

Publisher Number:

T252120