web.studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age

web.studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age

by David Gauntlett (Editor)

Synopsis

The Internet has changed the landscape of mass media. This text explores the ways in which people, organizations and companies are using the net to project their interest and concerns into the world. This book aims to offer a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the new web-based media culture.;Beginning with an introduction to cyberculture studies and ways of studying the web it moves on to consider everyday weblife, web art and culture, web business and global web politics ad protest. Topics covered range from fan websites, web identities and web design trends to global capitalism and web allure, cybercrime and the politics of hacking and propaganda warfare via the web. Throughout the book are suggestions for ways in which readers can use the web to further their own research.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 01 Sep 2000

ISBN 10: 0340760494
ISBN 13: 9780340760499
Book Overview: Sparkling collection, offering a coherent approach to the emerging field of web studies Written by an international team of scholars from the USA, Europe and Australia First comprehensive and coherent introduction to web culture Aimed at students; suggests tips for further research on the web

Media Reviews
sets the agenda for a new period of media research, one that gets to grips with the significance of new communications technologies and the global spaces in which they are so rapidly developing this book will help considerably to take media studies in new directions. Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, Univer
Author Bio

David Gauntlett is Lecturer in Social Communications at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds. He is the author of Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects, Video Critical: Children, the Environment and Media Power, and TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life. He has been a Research Fellow of the British Film Institute and produces the award-winning websites www.theory.org.uk and www.newmediastudies.com.