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What counts as media entertainment-the modes of accessing it, the cultural routines around it, and the new ways to profit from it-is fast outstripping our critical frames of reference. The exhilarating challenge to throw an explanatory net over this refractory field has been taken up with relish by Connected Viewing. -Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson provide a compelling and wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment that presents issues ripe for new types of research, while also giving scholars, students, and industry executives alike a multifaceted understanding of how-and why-people participate in viewing and sharing activities the way they do. -Sam Ford, co-author of Spreadable Media

The book pitches itself as an introductory text for use in courses dealing with contemporary media studies and as such is a strong work. This makes it an excellent snapshot of the world of media technologies from 2010 to 2013. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. -P. L. Kantor, formerly, Southern Vermont College, in CHOICE What counts as media entertainment-the modes of accessing it, the cultural routines around it, and the new ways to profit from it-is fast outstripping our critical frames of reference. The exhilarating challenge to throw an explanatory net over this refractory field has been taken up with relish by Connected Viewing. -Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson provide a compelling and wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment that presents issues ripe for new types of research, while also giving scholars, students, and industry executives alike a multifaceted understanding of how-and why-people participate in viewing and sharing activities the way they do. -Sam Ford, co-author of Spreadable Media

The book pitches itself as an introductory text for use in courses dealing with contemporary media studies and as such is a strong work. This makes it an excellent snapshot of the world of media technologies from 2010 to 2013. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. -P. L. Kantor, formerly, Southern Vermont College, in CHOICE What counts as media entertainment-the modes of accessing it, the cultural routines around it, and the new ways to profit from it-is fast outstripping our critical frames of reference. The exhilarating challenge to throw an explanatory net over this refractory field has been taken up with relish by Connected Viewing. -Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson provide a compelling and wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment that presents issues ripe for new types of research, while also giving scholars, students, and industry executives alike a multifaceted understanding of how-and why-people participate in viewing and sharing activities the way they do. -Sam Ford, co-author of Spreadable Media

What counts as media entertainment-the modes of accessing it, the cultural routines around it, and the new ways to profit from it-is fast outstripping our critical frames of reference. The exhilarating challenge to throw an explanatory net over this refractory field has been taken up with relish by Connected Viewing. -Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology

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Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kevin Sanson is Research Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Media Industries Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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