Miller, Vincent

Understanding digital culture / Digital culture Vincent Miller. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011. - ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.

Introduction -- Key elements of digital media -- The economic foundations of the information age -- Convergence and the contemporary media experience -- Digital inequality : social, political, and infrastructural contexts -- 'Everyone is watching' : privacy and surveillance in digital life -- Information politics, subversion and warfare -- Digital identity -- Social media and the problem of community : space relationships, networks -- The body and information technology -- Conclusion: Base, superstructure and infrastructure (revisited).

This is more than just another book on Internet studies. Tracing the pervasive influence of 'digital culture' throughout contemporary life, this text integrates socio-economic understandings of the 'information society' with the cultural studies approach to production, use, and consumption of digital media and multimedia.

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Information society.
Internet--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Mass media--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Sociedad de la información.
Internet--Aspectos sociales.
Tecnología de la información--Aspectos sociales.
Medios de comunicación masiva--Innovaciones tecnológicas--Aspectos sociales.

HM851 / .M54 2011

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