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Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Graham Meikle
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By (author) Sherman Young
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:248 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780230228948
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| Classifications | Dewey:302.23 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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| Imprint |
Red Globe Press
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| Publication Date |
13 December 2011 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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).
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