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    Understanding digital culture / Vincent Miller.

    By: Miller, Vincent (Vincent Alward)Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011Description: ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847874962; 1847874967; 9781847874979; 1847874975Other title: Digital cultureSubject(s): 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 socialesDDC classification: 303.4833 LOC classification: HM851 | .M54 2011
    Contents:
    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).
    Summary: 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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    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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