Paul Levinson is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. Professor Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC), and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Top 10 Academic Twitterers” in 2009. Paul Levinson's eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel)., Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards.
Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Why ""New New"" Media? | p. 1 |
New New Media Encompass Prior New Media Principles | p. 3 |
Why ""New New"" Rather Than Social Media, Screen Arts, or Web 2.0 or 3.0? | p. 4 |
Categories of New New Media | p. 5 |
Speed in New New Media Evolution Not Only in Software but Hardware | p. 8 |
The Prime Methodology: Learning by Doing | p. 8 |
The Order and Content of the Chapters | p. 11 |
Blogging | p. 17 |
A Thumbnail History of Electronic Writing | p. 18 |
Blogging About Anything, Forever | p. 19 |
Comment Moderation | p. 20 |
Commenting on the Blogs of Others | p. 21 |
Comments as Correctors | p. 22 |
MySpace Message from Stringer Bell of ""The Wire"" | p. 23 |
Changing the Words in Your Blog After Publication | p. 25 |
Long-Range Blogging and Linking | p. 26 |
Group Blogging | p. 27 |
Monetizing Your Blog | p. 28 |
Is Monetization Incompatible with the Ideals of Blogging? | p. 33 |
Dressing Up Your Blog with Images, Videos and Widgets | p. 35 |
Gauging the Readership of Your Blog | p. 36 |
Different Blogging Platforms | p. 37 |
Are Bloggers Entitled to the Same First Amendment Protection as Old-Media Journalists? | p. 38 |
Bloggers and Lobbyists | p. 40 |
Anonymity in Blogging | p. 42 |
Blogging for Others | p. 43 |
Changing the World with Your Blog | p. 46 |
A Town Supervisor and His Blog | p. 47 |
""Bloggers in Pajamas"" | p. 48 |
The Blogosphere Is Not Monolithic and Not All-Powerful | p. 50 |
Further Tensions Between New New Media and Older Forms | p. 52 |
The Need for Old-Media Reporting in an Age of New New Media Journalism | p. 54 |
Old Media and New New Media Symbiosis: Easter Eggs for ""Lost"" and ""Fringe"" | p. 56 |
Youtube | p. 58 |
""Obama Girl"" | p. 58 |
YouTube Presidential Primary Debates | p. 60 |
Telegenic + YouTube = Cybergenic | p. 62 |
YouTube Undeniability and Democracy | p. 64 |
YouTube Usurps Television as a Herald of Public Events | p. 65 |
YouTube Is Not Only Omni-Accessible and Free to Viewers-It's Free to Producers | p. 66 |
Obama as the New FDR in New New Media as Well as the New New Deal | p. 67 |
Amateur YouTube Stars and Producers | p. 68 |
Viral Videos | p. 70 |
Viral Videos Gone Bad | p. 71 |
The YouTube Revolution in Popular Culture | p. 72 |
Roy Orbison's Guitar | p. 73 |
""My Guitar Gently Weeps"" Through the Ages | p. 73 |
YouTube Retrieves MTV | p. 74 |
Will YouTube Put iTunes Out of Business? | p. 75 |
YouTube Refutes Lewis Mumford and Turns the Videoclip into a Transcript | p. 76 |
Tim Russert, 1950-2008 | p. 77 |
YouTube's Achilles' Heel: Copyright | p. 77 |
Comments as Verifiers on YouTube: The Fleetwoods | p. 80 |
The Pope's Channel | p. 81 |
YouTube as International Information Liberator | p. 82 |
Wikipedia | p. 84 |
Pickles and Pericles | p. 85 |
Inclusionists vs. Exclusionists: Battle Between Wikipedian Heroes | p. 86 |
Neutrality of Editors and Conflicts of Interest | p. 88 |
Identity Problems | p. 89 |
All Wikipedians Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others | p. 90 |
Transparency on Wikipedia Pages | p. 92 |
Wikipedia vs. Britannica | p. 93 |
Old vs. New New Media in Reporting the Death of Tim Russert | p. 93 |
Wikipedia Wrongly Reports the ""Deaths"" of Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd | p. 94 |
Encyclopedia or Newspaper? | p. 95 |
Does Wikipedia Make Libraries Unnecessary? | p. 96 |
The United Kingdom vs. Wikipedia | p. 98 |
Digg | p. 100 |
Shouting, Paying for Diggs (and Buries) | p. 101 |
""Friends"" in New New Media | p. 102 |
Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama on Digg | p. 104 |
Ron Paul and the Older Media | p. 107 |
Reddit, Fark, Buzzflash and Digg Alternatives | p. 108 |
MySpace | p. 110 |
The Irresistible Appeal of ""Friends"" | p. 110 |
""Cyberbullying"" on MySpace | p. 112 |
New New Media Provide Medicine for Cyberbullying | p. 113 |
MySpace as One-Stop Social Media Cafeteria | p. 114 |
MySpace Music and New New Media | p. 114 |
MySpace Poetry | p. 117 |
MySpace ""Bones"": Cooperation Between Old Media Narratives and New New Media | p. 118 |
p. 120 | |
MySpace vs. Facebook: Subjective Differences | p. 120 |
MySpace vs. Facebook: Objective Differences | p. 122 |
Facebook Friends as a Knowledge-Base Resources | p. 122 |
Facebook Friends as Real-Time Knowledge Resources | p. 123 |
Facebook Groups as Social and Political Forces | p. 125 |
Facebook as Myriad Local Political Pubs | p. 126 |
Meeting Online Friends in the Real World | p. 128 |
Reconnecting with Old Friends Online | p. 129 |
Protection for the ""Hidden Dimension"": Cleaning Up Your Online Pages | p. 130 |
Photos of Breastfeeding Banned on Facebook | p. 131 |
p. 133 | |
The Epitome of Immediacy | p. 134 |
Interpersonal + Mass Communication = Twitter | p. 135 |
Twitter as Smart T-Shirt or Jewelry | p. 136 |
Pownce and Other Twitter-Likes | p. 138 |
Twitter Dangers: The Congressman Who Tweeted Too Much | p. 138 |
Twitter vs. the Mullahs in Iran | p. 139 |
McLuhan as Microblogger | p. 141 |
Second Life | p. 143 |
History and Workings of Second Life | p. 145 |
Second Life and Real-Life Interface | p. 146 |
A Seminar in Second Life | p. 146 |
Kenny Hubble, Second Life Astronomer | p. 148 |
Sex in Second Life | p. 149 |
""Lost"" in Second Life | p. 151 |
Podcasting | p. 153 |
How Is a Podcast Made? | p. 154 |
Blueprint for a Podcast | p. 154 |
Podcast Storage and Distribution: Players, iTunes and RSS Feeds | p. 156 |
Case Study of Podcast Success: Grammar Girl | p. 157 |
Podcasts on Phones and in Cars | p. 158 |
Podiobooks | p. 159 |
Podcasts and Copyright: Podsafe Music | p. 159 |
Advertising on Podcasts | p. 161 |
Live Streaming | p. 164 |
Webinars and Vidcasts | p. 166 |
The Dark Side of New New Media | p. 168 |
Pre-New New Media Abuses: Bullying, Flaming, and Trolling | p. 169 |
Online Gossiping and Cyberbullying | p. 171 |
Cyberstalking | p. 173 |
Twittering and Terrorism | p. 174 |
The Craigslist Bank Heist | p. 175 |
Spam | p. 176 |
Old Media Overreaction to New New Abuses: The Library vs. the Blogger | p. 177 |
New New Media and The Election of 2008 | p. 180 |
Obama ""Married the Internet to Community Organizing"" | p. 181 |
New New Media VP Announcement Misstep | p. 181 |
Inauguration and After on the Internet | p. 182 |
The President and the BlackBerry | p. 183 |
White House Moves from Web 2.0 ""Dark Ages"" to New New Media | p. 185 |
Hardware | p. 186 |
The Inevitability of iPhone and Mobile Media | p. 187 |
The Price of Mobility | p. 188 |
The New New Media Exile of Useless Places | p. 189 |
Smartphones in the Car, in the Park, and in Bed | p. 189 |
Batteries as the Weak Spot | p. 190 |
iPhones, BlackBerrys, Bluetooth and Brains | p. 191 |
Bibliography | p. 192 |
Index | p. 217 |
About the Author | p. 226 |
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