Jussi Parikka, Tony D. Sampson (eds.): The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · internet, media studies, pornography, software, spam, technology, virus
For those of us increasingly reliant on email networks in our everyday social interactions, spam can be a pain; it can annoy; it can deceive; it can overlaod. Yet spam can also enterain and perplex us. This book is an aberation into the dark side of network culture. Instead of regurgitating stories of technological progress or over celebrating creative social media on the internet, it filters contemporary culture through its anomalies.
Contributions by John Johnston, Tony D. Sampson, Luciana Parisi, Roberta Buiani, Jussi Parikka, Steve Goodman, Matthew Fuller & Andrew Goffey, Susanna Paasonen, Katrien Jacobs, Dougal Phillips, Greg Elmer, Richard Rogers, Alexander R. Galloway & Eugene Thacker.
Publisher Hampton Press, 2009
Communication series: Communication alternatives
ISBN 1572739150, 9781572739154
320 pages
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Comment (0)Martin Hirst: News 2.0: Can Journalism Survive the Internet? (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · blogging, internet, journalism, media studies, web 2.0, youtube
Technology is transforming the media and with it, the practice of journalism. Martin Hirst investigates the implications of the new media explosion for the Fourth Estate and the way news is gathered and consumed around the world.
There have never been so many ways of producing news and news-like content. From podcasts, to YouTube, blogs and the phenomenal popularity of social media, seismic shifts are underway in global media.
News 2.0 bridges the gap between theory and practice to present an integrated approach to journalism that redefines the profession. Key ideas in journalism theory, political economy and media studies are used to explore the changing cultures of journalism in an historical context.
Hirst explains the fragmentation of the mass audience for news products, and how digital commerce has disconnected consumers from real democracy. He argues that journalism requires a restatement of the role of journalists as public intellectuals with a commitment to truth, trust and the public interest.
Publisher Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2011
ISBN 1742370578, 9781742370576
256 pages
Jon May, Nigel Thrift (eds.): Timespace. Geographies of Temporality (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · actor-network theory, anthropology, buddhism, cultural geography, cultural studies, feminism, media studies, postmodern, psychology, sociology, time
Timespace undermines the old certainties of time and space by arguing that these dimensions do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. The issue of space has perhaps been over-emphasised and it is essential that processes of everyday existence, such as globalisation and environmental issues and also notions such as gender, race and ethnicity, are looked at with a balanced time-space analysis.
The social and cultural consequences of this move are traced through a series of studies which deploy different perspectives – structural, phenomenological and even Buddhist – in order to make things meet up. The contributors provide an overview of the history of time and introduce the concepts of time and space together, across a range of disciplines. The themes discussed are of importance for cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and psychology.
Publisher Routledge, 2001
Volume 13 of Critical geographies
ISBN 0415180848, 9780415180849
323 pages
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