Internet Transformations Language, Technology, Media and Power

by Chesher, Chris; Crawford, Kate; Dunn, Anne; Shaner, Scott

• ISBN13: 9781403947413
• ISBN10: 1403947414
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-02-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Based on the authors' extensive combined teaching experience,Understanding the Internetdraws together key issues in the history, industry structures, practical uses and politics of the internet to provide a sustained and systematic overview for undergraduate students of Media and Communication Studies. Combining insightful analysis, an approachable prose style and easy navigation through a symmetrical structure, this is a transparently organized and coherent text that brings together theoretical debate with discussion of its applied manifestations.

Author Biography

CHRIS CHESHER is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communications at the University of New South Wales. He has taught theory and practice of new media for over a decade, and published widely. He is one of the facilitators of the Internet mailing list Fibreculture.

KATE CRAWFORD is a lecturer in Online Media in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Sydney. She has worked extensively as a print and online journalist, for newspapers (The Sydney Morning Herald) and magazines (as editor of Internet.au). She is also an internationally recognized electronic music artist.

ANNE DUNN is a lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. Before moving into an academic career, she spent more than 20 years working as a presenter, media researcher, journalist, producer and director, for radio and television in both the public and commercial sectors, in Australia and the UK. She set up the first online media production degree program at Charles Sturt Universtiy, in Bathurst, New South Wales.

SCOTT SHANER is a lecturer in the School of Media and Communications at the University of New South Wales. His most recent publications focus on characterizing the World Wide Web as an emerging media form and analyzing the genre of online media events. In addition to his teaching and research in online media, Scott has worked as a consultant, assisting government and business to communicate more effectively via the Web.

Table of Contents

Introduction * PART 1: CONTEXT * Introduction to Part 1 * Language: Orality, Literacy, Internetracy? * Technology: Networks, Technological and Social * Media: The Internet and Medium Specificity * Power: Controlling the Internet * PART 2: INDUSTRY * Introduction to Part 2 *
Language: Writing and Researching on the Internet * Technology: Build it and They will Come * Media: The Transformation of the Audience * Power: The Challenge to Hierarchies of Control *
PART 3: PROCESS * Introduction to Part 3 * Language: Writing for the Internet as a Social Process * Technology: Mediation and Remediation * Media: Designing Internet Communications
* Power: Conceptualising the User - Power, Access and Equity * PART 4: POLITICS *
Introduction to Part 4 * Language: Changing State - Policies of the Internet * Technology: Coding Resistance - Forms of Online Speech * Media: 'Follow the Eyeballs' - Corporate Credibility and the Web * Power: Active Communities - The Political Virtual

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