Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies
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Beschreibung
In his new work, Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies, a pioneer in the field turns his eye to the digital future, and how its transformation will also transform how it is studied.
This thought-provoking analysis sets out to reorient and rethink media and cultural studies, to grapple with the mutual productivity that the digital future will continue to facilitate, while investigating some examples to see which way they are pointing, including popular journalism, the public domain, media citizenship, messaging, and the role of 'creative destruction' in the renewal of complex systems.
The tools may change, Hartley argues, but media and popular culture will always engage with questions of meaning, identity, power, humankind in the context of technology, and global interaction among our dispersed and diverse species.
An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it
* Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate social media, participatory action, and user-creativity
* Leads the way for new interdisciplinary engagement with systems thinking, complexity and evolutionary sciences, and the convergence of cultural and economic values
* Analyzes the historical uses of multimedia from print, through broadcasting to the internet
* Combines conceptual innovation with historical erudition to present a high-level synthesis of ideas and detailed analysis of emergent forms and practices
* Features an international focus and global reach to provide a basis for students and researchers seeking broader perspectives
Autor*in
John Hartley
Themen in »Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies«
Communication & Media Studies Kommunikation u. Medienforschung Media Studies Medienforschung