Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life
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Publishing Details
Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life
By (Author) Graham Meikle
By (author) Sherman Young
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Red Globe Press
13th December 2011
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and ethical issues
302.23
Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2012
Physical Properties
Hardback
248
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
508g
Description
This book focuses on how everyday media such as Facebook, iTunes andGoogle can be understood in new ways for the21st centurythrough ideas of convergence.Key chapters explore the development of the internet, the rise of social media and the new opportunities for audiences to create, collaborate upon and share their own media.
Author Bio
GRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Culture at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author ofInterpreting News (2008) and Future Active: Media activism and the Internet (2003) and the co-editor of News Online: Transformations & Continuities(2010). SHERMAN YOUNG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book (2007).
