Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin (eds.): Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (2007)
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Today we have access to an almost inconceivably vast amount of information, from sources that are increasingly portable, accessible, and interactive. The Internet and the explosion of digital media content have made more information available from more sources to more people than at any other time in human history. This brings an infinite number of opportunities for learning, social connection, and entertainment. But at the same time, the origin of information, its quality, and its veracity are often difficult to assess. This volume addresses the issue of credibility—the objective and subjective components that make information believable—in the contemporary media environment.
The contributors look particularly at youth audiences and experiences, considering the implications of wide access and the questionable credibility of information for youth and learning. They discuss such topics as the credibility of health information online, how to teach credibility assessment, and public policy solutions. Much research has been done on credibility and new media, but little of it focuses on users younger than college students. Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility fills this gap in the literature.
Publisher MIT Press, 2007
ISBN 0262562324, 9780262562324
Length 202 pages
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Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar (eds.): Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of New Media (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · blogging, digital media, media culture, writing
“Sign Here! features a number of articles from different fields, reaching from cultural and media studies to reaching from cultural and media studies to literature, film and art, and from philosophy and information studies to law and archival studies. Questions addressed in this book are: Will handwriting disappear in the age of new (digital) media? What happens to important cultural and legal concepts, such as original, copy, authenticity, reproducibility, uniqueness, and iterability? Where is the writing hand to be located if handwriting is performed not immediately ‘by hand’ but when it is (re)mediated by electronic or artistic media?”
Publisher Amsterdam University Press, 2006
Transformations in Art and Culture series
Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License
ISBN 9053568166, 9789053568163
247 pages
Keywords and phrases
weblogs, digital signature, Saul Bass, electronic signature, Martin Scorsese, Hurufi, Hitler diaries, Anne Frank House, tattoo, Arnold Dreyblatt, calligraphic, identity theft, Shirin Neshat, Eecke, handwriting, blogging, Jacques Derrida, Adolf Hitler, mise en abyme, digital media
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