Flew, T. (2008) New Media: An Introduction (3rd Edition), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6
Is 'new media theory' a useful and relevant concept?
Two questions:
Is there a need for a theory of new media in application and design
What is the "new" in new media
The first several paragraphs raises questions on the way new media is described and the way theory along with critical anyalisis has precieved and described new media theory.
Manuel Castells
All statements quoted from Flew, T. (2008) New Media: An Introduction (3rd Edition), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6
- Most significant social theorist in new media in the last two decades
- The information age: economy, Society and Culture series (1996, 1998, 2000a)
- A global network society
- techno-economic paradigm
- Marxist urban sociology
- collective consumption
- informational city
- development of network structures and architectures is a core feature of the contemporary social condition
- biotechnology
- all aspects of the self-identity, experience, relationships-are bound up with the network society
- neither uniformly Utopian nor uniformly Dystopian
- new forms of inclusion and exclusion
Henry Jenkins
- convergence culture: three concepts; media convergence participatory culture and collective intelligence
Scott Lash
Lawrence Lessig
Sonia Livingstone
Daniel Miller and Don Slater
Mark Poster
Postmodernism and new media: A Case Study in Cultural Studies
Dan Schiller
The Transformation of Telecommunications: A Case Study in Political Economy
Tiziana Terranova
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