A Companion to New Media Dynamics presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cultural underpinnings of the media of the digital age in terms of dynamic change

• Presents a state-of-the-art collection of original readings relating to new media in terms of dynamic change
• Features interdisciplinary contributions encompassing the sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts
• Addresses a wide range of issues from the ownership and regulation of new media to their form and cultural uses
• Provides readers with a glimpse of new media dynamics at three levels of scale: the 'macro' or system level; the 'meso' or institutional level; and 'micro' or agency level

Author: John Hartley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06/02/2015
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781119000860

About the Author

John Hartley is John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, Western Australia; and Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. Recent books include Cultural Science (2014), Key Concepts in Creative Industries (2013) and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (2012). He is Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Jean Burgess is Associate Professor of Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology. She is co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (2009), and co-editor of Twitter and Society (2014) and Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (2012).

Axel Bruns is Professor and ARC Future Fellow, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. He is author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and co-editor of Twitter and Society (2014) and Uses of Blogs (2006).