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Book SynopsisAs the lines have grown blurred between new and traditional media forms, there is much to learn about the dynamics surrounding the growth and adoption of new media.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xix
Introducing Dynamics: A New Approach to ‘‘New Media’’ 1
John Hartley, Jean Burgess, and Axel Bruns
Part 1 Approaches and Antecedents 13
1 Media Studies and New Media Studies 15
Sean Cubitt
2 The Future of Digital Humanities is a Matter of Words 33
Willard McCarty
3 Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History 53
Thomas Pettitt
4 Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media 73
Peter Swirski
5 The Economics of New Media 90
John Quiggin
6 The End of Audiences? 104
Sonia Livingstone and Ranjana Das
7 The Emergence of Next-Generation Internet Users 122
Grant Blank and William H. Dutton
8 National Web Studies 142
Richard Rogers, Esther Weltevrede, Erik Borra, and Sabine Niederer
Part 2 Issues and Identities 167
Agency 169
9 In the Habitus of the New 171
Zizi Papacharissi and Emily Easton
10 Long Live Wikipedia? 185
Andrew Lih
Mobility 191
11 Changing Media with Mobiles 193
Gerard Goggin
12 Make Room for the Wii 209
Ben Aslinger
Enterprise 219
13 Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers, and Makers 221
Charles Leadbeater
14 The Dynamics of Digital Multisided Media Markets 231
Patrik Wikstr¨om
Search 247
15 Search and Networked Attention 249
Alexander Halavais
16 Against Search 261
Pelle Snickars
Network 275
17 Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mobile Web 277
Indrek Ibrus
18 Pseudonyms and the Rise of the Real-Name Web 290
Bernie Hogan
Surveillance 309
19 New Media and Changing Perceptions of Surveillance 311
Anders Albrechtslund
20 Lessons of the Leak 322
Christoph Bieber
Part 3 Forms, Platforms, and Practices 337
Culture and Identity 339
21 Cybersexuality and Online Culture 341
Feona Attwood
22 Microcelebrity and the Branded Self 346
Theresa M. Senft
23 Online Identity 355
Alice E. Marwick
24 Practices of Networked Identity 365
Jan-Hinrik Schmidt
Politics, Participation, and Citizenship 375
25 The Internet and the Opening Up of Political Space 377
Stephen Coleman
26 The Internet as a Platform for Civil Disobedience 385
Cherian George
27 Parody, Performativity, and Play 396
Jeffrey P. Jones
28 The Politics of ‘‘Platforms’’ 407
Tarleton Gillespie
29 From Homepages to Network Profiles 417
Axel Bruns
Knowledge and New Generations 427
30 The New Media Toolkit 429
Mark Pesce
31 Materiality, Description, and Comparison as Tools for Cultural Difference Analysis 439
Basile Zimmermann
32 Learning from Network Dysfunctionality 450
Tony D. Sampson and Jussi Parikka
33 Young People Online 461
Lelia Green and Danielle Brady
34 Beyond Generations and New Media 472
Kate Crawford and Penelope Robinson
Index 480
