Digital media transformation in human communications

By:

"Messaris, Paul (ed.)"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Peter Lang; 2007Description: 337pISBN:

9780820478401

Subject(s):

Multimedia system

DDC classification:

302.231 DIG

Summary: The mystique surrounding new technology often leads to exaggerated claims for its inexorable effects. It is important, then, that communication scholars provide measured and deliberative assessments of new technological developments, distinguishing real shifts, and adaptations in social and cultural practices from the, as yet, unrealized promises of‘‘new media.’’ Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication, edited by Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys, provides such an assessment, bringing together essays by27 scholars and media producers who reﬂectupon the uneven impact of digital technologies across a broad range of media production, consumption, and social practice

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The mystique surrounding new technology often leads to exaggerated claims for its inexorable effects. It is important, then, that communication scholars provide measured and deliberative assessments of new technological developments, distinguishing real shifts, and adaptations in social and cultural practices from the, as yet, unrealized promises of‘‘new media.’’ Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication, edited by Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys, provides such an assessment, bringing together essays by27 scholars and media producers who reﬂectupon the uneven impact of digital technologies across a broad range of media production, consumption, and social practice

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