[ecrea] New book on Digital Media

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

By Andrew White

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 240 pages.



Hardcover/paperback/e-book:

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/digital-media-and-society-andrew-white/?K=9781137393623

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Media-Society-Transforming-Economics-ebook/dp/B00O2AC7PU/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1412994738&sr=8-1&keywords=andrew+white+digital+media+and+society



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)



SUMMARY

Referencing key contemporary debates on issues such as surveillance, 
identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet 
politics, this book is a critical intervention in discussions on the 
impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, 
the economy and social practices. Divided into three parts, the first 
highlights the way in which digital media challenges normative 
conceptions of the public sphere and discusses this in relation to the 
creation of new forms of knowledge through the digitization of scholarly 
resources and the impact of digital media on traditional conceptions of 
identity. The second part focuses on the digital economy, emphasizing 
the opportunities it affords through the creative industries, as well as 
the threat posed by the computerization of the financial industry, and 
the third part focuses on uses of digital media through a number of case 
studies relating to online reading, the new social movements, 
surveillance and the developing world.



Andrew White

Associate Professor of Creative Industries & Digital Media

Director of Research for the Faculty of Arts & Education

The School of International Communications

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China

andrew [dot] white [at] Nottingham [dot] edu [dot] cn

http://ningbo.academia.edu/AndrewWhite



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