About the Book
Discusses how "new new media" are transforming our culture
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Foursquare, blogging ... these and other "new new media" are used by hundreds of millions worldwide and are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect presidents to how we watch television. New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations. New new media, as opposed to the traditional "new media" of email and websites, allow and encourage all consumers to become producers, readers to become writers and publishers, viewers to become performers - and have engendered such worldwide movements as The Arab Spring, The Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street. This catalytic feature of contemporary media prompts an entirely new look at how mass media, culture, and industry are undergoing the most profound changes since the advent of the alphabet and the printing press. Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
- Discuss the impact new new media have on our society
- Understand the mechanics of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and other types of new new media
- Discover the newest new media - Foursquare, Pinterest, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Goggle+
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About the Author:
Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. His eight nonfiction books, including
The Soft Edge (1997),
Digital McLuhan (1999),
Realspace (2003),
Cellphone (2004), and
New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012) have been the subject of major articles in the
New York Times,
Wired, and the
Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include
The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel),
Borrowed Tides (2001),
The Consciousness Plague (2002),
The Pixel Eye (2003), and
The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "Nightline" (ABC), Dylan Ratigan (MSNBC) and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP,
Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued on mini-CD by Big Pink Records in 2009, and was re-issued in a vinyl remastered re-pressing by Sound of Salvation/Whiplash Records in December 2010. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, writes political and media commentary for
Mediaite, and was listed in
The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009.
