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Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Graham Meikle
By (author) Sherman Young
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:248
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155
ISBN/Barcode 9780230228948
ClassificationsDewey:302.23
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publication Date 13 December 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

GRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Culture at the University 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).