Media convergence: networked digital media in everyday life

This book focuses on how everyday media such as Facebook, iTunes and Google can be understood in new ways for the 21st century through ideas of convergence. Key chapters explore the development of the internet, the rise of social media and the new opportunities for audiences to create, collaborate upon and share their own media. GRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Culture at theUniversity of Stirling, UK. He is the author of 'Interpreting News' (2008)' 'and 'Future Active: Media activism and the Internet' (2003) and the co-editor of 'News Online: Transformations & Continuities '(2010). SHERMAN YOUNG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of 'The Book is Dead,Long Live the Book' (2007). INDICE: Acknowledgments - Introduction - Content, Computing, Communications - Convergent Media Industries - From Broadcast to Social Media - Never Ending Stories - Creative Audiences - Making the Invisible Visible - Time, Space and Convergent Media - Regulation, Policy and Convergent Media - Conclusion - References -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22894-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés