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New Media, Communication, and Society is a fast, straightforward examination of key topics which will be useful and engaging for both students and professors. It connects students to wide-ranging resources and challenges them to develop their own opinions. Moreover, it encourages students to develop media literacy so they can speak up and make a difference in the world. Short chapters with lots of illustrations encourage reading and provide a springboard for conversation inside and outside of the classroom. Wide-ranging topics spark interest. Chapters include suggestions for additional exploration, a media literacy exercise, and a point that is just for fun. Every chapter includes thought leaders, ranging from leading researchers to business leaders to entrepreneurs, from Socrates to Doug Rushkoff and Lance Strate to Bill Gates.

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Author:   Mary Ann Allison ,  Cheryl A. Casey
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.465kg
ISBN:  

9781433145292

ISBN 10:   1433145294
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   10 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – Mary Ann Allison/Cheryl A. Casey: Welcome and How to Use This Book – Mary Ann Allison: You, Media, and the Global Brain – Mary Ann Allison: Commoners Become Media Kings – Cheryl A. Casey: People of the Word – Mary Ann Allison: Networks: A Wealth of Stories – Cheryl A. Casey: Network Structure – Cheryl A. Casey: Big News Power – Cheryl A. Casey: The Dark Side of the Internet – Cheryl A. Casey/Mary Ann Allison: The Physical Side of the Internet – Mary Ann Allison: Hearing and Seeing Different Societies – Cheryl A. Casey: The Medium Is the Message – Cheryl A. Casey: Rewiring Our Social, Political, and Intellectual Lives – Mary Ann Allison: Staying Alive on Facebook – Cheryl A. Casey: Mobiles – Cheryl A. Casey: Digital Gaming – Cheryl A. Casey: Bloggers – Cheryl A. Casey: Information Literacy – Mary Ann Allison: Wikipedia: Not Just Wow! But How? – Mary Ann Allison: Participatory Media – Cheryl A. Casey: Social Media and Mindful Multitasking – Mary Ann Allison: Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed – Mary Ann Allison: Skilled Conversation Is a New Medium – Mary Ann Allison: You Have a Choice – Mary Ann Allison: Does Your Life Depend on Being Connected? – Cheryl A. Casey: New Media Reshapes Governments – Cheryl A. Casey: New Media Reshapes Economics and Jobs – Cheryl A. Casey: Big Data – Cheryl A. Casey: Spotlights: Arab Spring and Chinese Reality TV – Mary Ann Allison: Will ICT-Supported Technology Create Abundance? – Mary Ann Allison: Hyper-Connected Risks: A Global Picture – Mary Ann Allison: A Media Dashboard for Humanity – Mary Ann Allison/Cheryl A. Casey: An End and a Beginning: Seeing Ourselves as Our Global Brain Might See Us – Index.

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“New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming.”—Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut “Here at last is a textbook with the student’s world in mind. Recently I’ve completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes ‘meeting the students where they are.’ Rather than being centered in the ‘old media’ as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I’m delighted to find a chapter on the ‘dark side’ of the Internet. But the book is far larger than that—30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come.”—Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts “Finally! A textbook that’s up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here’s an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos.”—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like “We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the Internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the twenty-first century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide.”—Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition

New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming. -Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Finally! A textbook that's up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here's an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the Internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the twenty-first century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide. -Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition Here at last is a textbook with the student's world in mind. Recently I've completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes `meeting the students where they are.' Rather than being centered in the `old media' as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I'm delighted to find a chapter on the `dark side' of the Internet. But the book is far larger than that-30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come. -Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts

New Media, Communication, and Society, by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming. -Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Here at last is a textbook with the student's world in mind. Recently I've completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes `meeting the students where they are.' Rather than being centered in the `old media' as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I'm delighted to find a chapter on the `dark side' of the internet. But the book is far larger than that-30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come. -Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the 21st century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide. -Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology Finally! A textbook that's up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here's an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like

Finally! A textbook that's up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here's an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the Internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the twenty-first century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide. -Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition Here at last is a textbook with the student's world in mind. Recently I've completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes 'meeting the students where they are.' Rather than being centered in the 'old media' as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I'm delighted to find a chapter on the 'dark side' of the Internet. But the book is far larger than that-30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come. -Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming. -Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut

Here at last is a textbook with the student's world in mind. Recently I've completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes `meeting the students where they are.' Rather than being centered in the `old media' as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I'm delighted to find a chapter on the `dark side' of the Internet. But the book is far larger than that-30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come. -Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts Finally! A textbook that's up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here's an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the Internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the twenty-first century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide. -Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming. -Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut

Here at last is a textbook with the student's world in mind. Recently I've completed studying a lot of research about how the best teachers teach and the answer always includes 'meeting the students where they are.' Rather than being centered in the 'old media' as so many communication texts are, authors Cheryl A. Casey and Mary Ann Allison place us at the center of the media world of hand-held and digital devices large and especially small which transform learning and every part of society. As a former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, I appreciate how they apply his work to the current decade and as an ethicist, I'm delighted to find a chapter on the 'dark side' of the Internet. But the book is far larger than that-30 chapters. There are so many engaging topics, so much fresh research, and all so readily available to those from 18 to 81. I strongly recommend the thinking of Casey and Allison in the classroom, on the written page, in digital format, and in platforms yet to come. -Tom Cooper, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts Finally! A textbook that's up to the challenge of the digital media environment. Here's an accessible and thought-provoking set of resources and thought experiments on everything from the global brain and viral media to network effects and DDOS attacks. These are the phenomena at the very center of our almost universally disrupted society and political economy, rendered in ways that should enable the next generation to navigate their way beyond the chaos. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Generation Like We live in an environment characterized by extraordinary complexity, one that includes all manner of new media and digital technologies, mobile devices, wired and wireless connectivity, networks, the Internet and the web, social media, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, cloud storage, data mining, streaming content, multi-screen viewing, information overload, participatory media, and so much more. Learning how to navigate our new media environment is no easy task, but all the more vital for anyone associated with the media professions, indeed for anyone entering the twenty-first century workplace, and ultimately for every one of us, as citizens in a democracy. There has long been a need for a text that provides a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to new media, and at last, thanks to Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey, we have one. New Media, Communication, and Society delivers exactly what students and instructors need from an introductory text, and indeed exceeds all expectations of what such a text might provide. -Lance Strate, Fordham University, author of Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming. -Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Mary Ann Allison, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar and professor emerita at Hofstra University. She has been teacher of the year twice and won the first mentor of the year award. She won the Innis Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the field of Media Ecology. Cheryl A. Casey, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Communication at Champlain College. She has published and presented work in critical media studies, media ecology, and communication theory. She has also served as Executive Director of the Eastern Communication Association.

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