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Communication and Technology
Ed. by Cantoni, Lorenzo / Danowski, James A.
Series:_Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS]_ 5

DE GRUYTER MOUTON

The primary goal of the /Communication and Technology/ volume (5th
within the series “Handbooks of Communication Science”) is to provide
the reader with a comprehensive compilation of key scholarly literature,
identifying theoretical issues, emerging concepts, current research,
specialized methods, and directions for future investigations. The
internet and web have become the backbone of many new communication
technologies, often transforming older communication media, through
digitization, to make them compatible with the net. Accordingly, this
volume focuses on internet/web technologies. The essays cover various
infrastructure technologies, ranging from different kinds of hard-wired
elements to a range of wireless technologies such as WiFi, mobile
telephony, and satellite technologies. Audio/visual communication is
discussed with reference to large-format motion pictures, medium-sized
television and video formats, and the small-screen mobile smartphone.
There is also coverage of audio-only media, such as radio, music, and
voice telephony; text media, in such venues as online newspapers, blogs,
discussion forums and mobile texting; and multi-media technologies, such
as games and virtual reality.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Lorenzo Cantoni and James A. Danowski
Communication technologies: An itinerary 3

I. The history of communication technologies

Brett Oppegaard
1 From orality to newspaper wire services: Conceptualizing a medium 21
Gabriele Balbi and Richard R. John
2 Point-to-point: telecommunications networks from the optical telegraph
to the mobile telephone 35
Alejandro Pardo
3 Cinema and technology: From painting to photography and cinema,
up to digital motion pictures in theatres and on the net 57
Tom McCourt
4 Recorded music 79
Marko Siitonen
5 Communication in video games: From players to player communities 103
Stefano Tardini and Lorenzo Cantoni
6 Hypermedia, internet and the web 119
Rita M. Lauria and Jacquelyn Ford Morie
7 Virtuality: VR as metamedia and herald of our future realities 141
Constance Elise Porter
8 Virtual communities and social networks 161
Ulrike Gretzel
9 Web 2.0 and 3.0 181

II. Communication technologies and their enviroment

Tim Unwin
10 ICTs and the dialectics of development 193
Martin J. Eppler
11 Information quality and information overload: The promises and perils
of the information age 215
Davide Bolchini
12 User experience and usability 233
Brian Winston
13 Impact of new media: A corrective 249
Claire Hewson
14 Research methods on the Internet 277
Emanuele Rapetti and Francesc Pedró
15 Digital Natives, New Millennium Learners and Generation Y, does age
matter? Data and reflection from the higher education context 303
Wenhong Chen and Rich Ling
16 Mobile media and communication 323
Joanna Kulesza
17 Legal issues in a networked world 345
Adriano Fabris
18 Ethical issues in Internet communication 365

III. Communication technologies and new practices of communication
in the information and communication society

Rolf T. Wigand
19 Commerce 385
Kevin B. Wright
20 Workplace relationships: Telework, work-life balance, social support,
negative features, and individual/organizational outcomes 397


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