Understanding Digital Culture

Author : Vincent Miller
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446246485
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Culture written by Vincent Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an outstanding book. It is one of only a few scholarly texts that successfully combine a nuanced theoretical understanding of the digital age with empirical case studies of contemporary media culture. The scope is impressive, ranging from questions of digital inequality to emergent forms of cyberpolitics." - Nick Gane, York University "Well written, very up-to-date with a good balance of examples and theory. It′s good to have all the major issues covered in one book." - Peter Millard, Portsmouth University "This is just the text I was looking for to enable first year undergraduates to develop their critical understanding of the technologies they have embedded so completely in their lives." - Chris Simpson, University College of St Mark & St John This is more than just another book on Internet studies. Tracing the pervasive influence of ′digital culture′ throughout contemporary life, this text integrates socio-economic understandings of the ′information society′ with the cultural studies approach to production, use, and consumption of digital media and multimedia. Refreshingly readable and packed with examples from profiling databases and mashups to cybersex and the truth about social networking, Understanding Digital Culture: Crosses disciplines to give a balanced account of the social, economic and cultural dimensions of the information society. Illuminates the increasing importance of mobile, wireless and converged media technologies in everyday life. Unpacks how the information society is transforming and challenging traditional notions of crime, resistance, war and protest, community, intimacy and belonging. Charts the changing cultural forms associated with new media and its consumption, including music, gaming, microblogging and online identity. Illustrates the above through a series of contemporary, in-depth case studies of digital culture. This is the perfect text for students looking for a full account of the information society, virtual cultures, sociology of the Internet and new media.

Author : Creeber, Glen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335221971
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Culture: Understanding New Media written by Creeber, Glen and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Auto Theft to Second Life, this book explores media's important issues and debates. It covers topics such as digital television, digital cinema, game culture, digital democracy, the World Wide Web, digital news, online social networking, music & multimedia and virtual communities.

Author : Jason Rutter
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847877664
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Games written by Jason Rutter and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are an increasing number of courses on digital games and gaming, following the rise in the popularity of games themselves. Amongst these practical courses, there are now theoretical courses appearing on gaming on media, film and cultural studies degree programmes. The aim of this book is to satisfy the need for a single accessible textbook which offers a broad introductions to the range of literatures and approaches currently contributing to digital game research. Each of the chapters will outline key theoretical perspectives, theorists and literatures to demonstrate their relevance to, and use in, the study of digital games.

Author : D. Berry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230371930
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Humanities written by D. Berry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.

Author : Limor Shifman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262317702
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memes in Digital Culture written by Limor Shifman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video—“Mitt Romney Style,” “NASA Johnson Style,” “Egyptian Style,” and many others. “Gangnam Style” (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most famous examples of an Internet meme: a piece of digital content that spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes a shared cultural experience. In this book, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes—including “Leave Britney Alone,” the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's “We Are the 99 Percent.” She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users. She differentiates memes from virals; analyzes what makes memes and virals successful; describes popular meme genres; discusses memes as new modes of political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes; and examines memes as agents of globalization. Memes, Shifman argues, encapsulate some of the most fundamental aspects of the Internet in general and of the participatory Web 2.0 culture in particular. Internet memes may be entertaining, but in this book Limor Shifman makes a compelling argument for taking them seriously.

Author : Larissa Hjorth
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526426250
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Social Media written by Larissa Hjorth and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring questions of both exploitation and empowerment, Understanding Social Media provides a critical conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. Taking an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, it explores the key themes and concepts, going beyond specific platforms to show you how to place social media more critically within the changing media landscape. Updated throughout, the Second Edition of this bestselling text includes new and expanded discussions of: Qualitative and quantitative approaches to researching social media Datafication and algorithmic cultures Surveillance, privacy and intimacy The rise of apps and platforms, and how they shape our experiences Sharing economies and social media publics The increasing importance of visual economies AR, VR and social media play Death and digital legacy Tying theory to the real world with a range of contemporary case studies throughout, it is essential reading for students and researchers of social media, digital media, digital culture, and the creative and cultural industries.

Author : Vincent Alward Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Culture written by Vincent Alward Miller and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grant D. Bollmer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526453096
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Digital Cultures written by Grant D. Bollmer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment. Theorizing Digital Cultures: Shows students the importance of theory for understanding digital cultures and presents key theories in an easy-to-understand way Considers the key topics of cybernetics, online identities, aesthetics and ecologies Explores the power relations between individuals and groups that are produced by digital technologies Enhances understanding through applied examples, including YouTube personalities, Facebook’s ‘like’ button and holographic performers Clearly structured and written in an accessible style, this is the book students need to get to grips with the key theoretical approaches in the field. It is essential reading for students and researchers of digital culture and digital society throughout the social sciences.

Author : Vincent Alward Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529714760
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Digital Cultures written by Grant Bollmer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media--in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions--affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment.--