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[Commlist] New book: Digital Roots - Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age

Wed Sep 08 12:44:43 GMT 2021





  NEW BOOK: /Digital Roots - //Historicizing Media and Communication
  Concepts of the Digital Age/

  * Edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and
    Christian Schwarzenegger


Open Access available at DeGruyter (funded by the University of Luxembourg):https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110740202/html <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110740202/html>

As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


TECHNOLOGIES AND CONNECTIONS

Networks

Massimo Rospocher and Gabriele Balbi


Media Convergence

John O’Sullivan and Leopoldina Fortunati


Multimedia

Katie Day Good


Interactivity

Benjamin Thierry


\Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Bory, Simone Natale and Dominique Trudel


AGENCY AND POLITICS

Global Governance

Francesca Musiani and Valérie Schafer


Data(fication)

Erik Koenen, Christian Schwarzenegger and Juraj Kittler


Fake News

Monika Hanley and Allen Munoriyarwa



Echo Chambers

Maria Löblich and Niklas Venema


Digital Media Activism

Emiliano Treré and Anne Kaun


USERS AND PRACTICES

Telepresence

Jérôme Bourdon

Digital Loneliness

Edward Brennan

Amateurism

Susan Aasman, Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg


User-Generated Content (UGC)

Göran Bolin


Fandom

Eleonora Benecchi and Erika Wang


Authenticity

Andreas Fickers

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