Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433132869 ISBN 13: 9781433132865

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

The age of digital media has given rise to a new social world. It is a world in which the transmission of information from the few to the many is steadily being supplanted by the multi-directional flow of facts, lies, and ideas. It is a world in which hundreds of millions of people are voluntarily depositing large amounts of personal details in publicly accessible databases. It is a world in which interpersonal relationships are increasingly being conducted in the virtual sphere. Above all, this is a world that seems to be veering off in unpredictable ways from the trends of the immediate past. This book is a probing examination of that world, and of the changes that it has ushered into our lives.

In more than thirty essays by a wide range of scholars, this must-have second edition examines the impact of digital media in six areas – information, persuasion, community, gender and sexuality, surveillance and privacy, and cross-cultural communication – and offers an invaluable guide for students and scholars alike. With one exception, all essays are completely new or revised for this volume.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Chapters with impressive breadth, and authors of impressive credentials, covering digital media topic from images to music to games. Digital Media is convincing evidence that computing no longer merely defines 'new media,' but defines a unification of media, highlighting issues of simulation, interactivity, and connection across media topics from the neuroscience of information processing to the production of culture." - Dr. Byron Reeves, Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University

"At a time when all things digital tend to be associated with the internet, this volume serves as a broad-ranging and well-composed reminder that digital media forms exist offline as well as online, and that their current forms of expression come with a long cultural prehistory." - Dr. Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Professor of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen

About the Author

Paul Messaris (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is the Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He has directed several films, and is the author of Visual Literacy: Image, Mind, and Reality, winner of the National Communication Association’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award.

Lee Humphreys (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is the author of The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (2018) and the Chair of the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1433132869
• ISBN 13: 9781433132865
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Messaris Paul, Humphreys Lee