Research Catalog

Title

Understanding digital culture / Vince Miller.

Author

Miller, Vincent (Vincent Alward)

Publication

London : SAGE, 2011.

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Details

Description

ix, 254 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This is more than just another book on Internet studies. Tracing the pervasive influence of 'digital culture' throughout contemporary life, this text integrates socio-economic understandings of the 'information society' with the cultural studies approach to production, use, and consumption of digital media and multimedia.

Alternative Title

Digital culture

Subject

• Information society
• Internet > Social aspects
• Information technology > Social aspects
• Mass media > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Key elements of digital media -- The economic foundations of the information age -- Convergence and the contemporary media experience -- Digital inequality : social, political, and infrastructural contexts -- 'Everyone is watching' : privacy and surveillance in digital life -- Information politics, subversion and warfare -- Digital identity -- Social media and the problem of community : space relationships, networks -- The body and information technology -- Conclusion: Base, superstructure and infrastructure (revisited).

ISBN

• 9781847874962 (hbk.)
• 1847874967 (hbk.)
• 1847874975 (pbk.)
• 9781847874979

OCLC

633262982

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library