The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness (Digital Formations)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433114402 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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It offers a snapshot of the state of historical scholarship on new media. Although the individual essays seem to study very different objects, they tend to come together around issues of the social and historical construction of technologies and media. -Taken together, these fresh and inventive essays by a distinguished group of communications scholars document the often surprising ways in which recent innovations in communications technology have altered our understanding of the history of new media in the recent and not so recent past. John, Columbia University) -Although the title seems oxymoronic - how can 'new' media have such a long history? - the essays in this book will convince you that historical work on new media is indispensable to a sound understanding of the emerging media environment. The book brings a new generation of historical researchers together with a more familiar cast of senior scholars in a collaboration marked by
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Park is Associate Professor of Communication at Lake Forest College. David W. He was the founder and first President of the Association of Internet Researchers and is co-editor of New Media & Society. Jankowski is co-editor of the journal New Media & Society. Jankowski is Visiting Fellow at the e-Humanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Nicholas W. He is the founder and past chair of the International Communication Association’s
Furthermore, the new is constructed with an eye on the future, or more correctly, an eye on what we think the future will be. Remaining essays address the shifting patterns of storage at work in media inscription, as they relate to the practice of history, and to the past and contemporary cultural formations. Chapters by eminent scholars address the connection between historical consideration and new media. This volume examines the role of history in the study of new media and of newness itself, discussing how the ‘new’ in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. Some assess the historical descriptions of the development of new media; others hinge on the issue of newness as it relates to existing practices in