TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Vincent TI - Understanding digital culture SN - 9781847874962 AV - HM851 .M54 2011 U1 - 303.4833 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE Publications KW - Information society KW - Internet KW - Social aspects KW - Information technology KW - Mass media KW - Technological innovations KW - Sociedad de la información KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Tecnología de la información KW - Medios de comunicación masiva KW - Innovaciones tecnológicas N1 - 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) N2 - 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 ER -