Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices

by A. White

Overview

Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, the economy and social practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137393623
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/22/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Andrew White is Associate Professor and Faculty Director of Research at the University of Nottingham's China campus. He has published numerous articles on digital media, creative industries and Northern Irish politics in many journals, including First Monday, International Journal of Cultural Policy and Irish Political Studies.

Table of Contents

Contents List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations and Acronyms PART I: POLITICS AND DIGITAL MEDIA: THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL MEDIA ON THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERES Introduction to Part I 1 From the Public to the Private: The Digitization of Scholarship 2. From the Private to the Public: Online Identity 3. Digital Media and Politics in the Liberal Democratic State Conclusion of Part I PART II: THE DIGITAL ECONOMY Introduction to Part II 4. The Digital Economy and the Creative Industries 5 The Digital Economy and the Global Financial Crisis PART III: DIGITAL MEDIA USE Introduction to Part III 6. Reading/Using Digital Media 7. The New Social Movements 8 Surveillance: The Role of Databases in Contemporary Societies 9. Digital Media Use in the Developing World Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"White has provided a ground-breaking examination of the implications of digital media for the fundamental workings of society. Its international perspective makes this new classic required reading for any serious student of media in the age of global and digital communication." - John Pavlik, Rutgers, USA

"In his new book, Andrew White takes the bird's eye view of digital media. He carefully guides us through the theoretical minefields opened up by the networked world: identity politics, the distinction between private/public, the democratic state, economics, surveillance, and other key concepts. White appears a reliable guide who knows how to strike a balance between complexity and elucidation, between argument and exposition, between summary and probe. I am confident this book will be very useful for students and faculty alike. It addresses poignant issues in a clear voice." - José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam, and author of The Culture of Connectivity (2013)

"Overall this book is an engaging contribution to the growing literature on the intersection of the public and private within an ever-changing digital landscape. White's summaries of the often complex debates are always accessible, while his use of case studies gives these debates the real world context they might otherwise lack.'- Maxine Montaigne, LSE Review of Books, 2014

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