[Air-L] New book on Digital Media

[Andrew White]

Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices
By Andrew White
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 240 pages.

Hardcover/paperback/e-book:
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/digital-media-and-society-andrew-white/?K=9781137393623
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Media-Society-Transforming-Economics-ebook/dp/B00O2AC7PU/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1412994738&sr=8-1&keywords=andrew+white+digital+media+and+society
 
Reviews
"White has provided a ground-breaking examination of the implications of digital media for the fundamental workings of society. Its international perspective makes this new classic required reading for any serious student of media in the age of global and digital communication." - John Pavlik, Rutgers, USA 
  
"In his new book, Andrew White takes the bird's eye view of digital media. He carefully guides us through the theoretical minefields opened up by the networked world: identity politics, the distinction between private/public, the democratic state, economics, surveillance, and other key concepts. White appears a reliable guide who knows how to strike a balance between complexity and elucidation, between argument and exposition, between summary and probe. I am confident this book will be very useful for students and faculty alike. It addresses poignant issues in a clear voice." - José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam, and author of The Culture of Connectivity(2013)
 
Summary
Referencing key contemporary debates on issues such as surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, this book is a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, the economy and social practices. Divided into three parts, the first highlights the way in which digital media challenges normative conceptions of the public sphere and discusses this in relation to the creation of new forms of knowledge through the digitization of scholarly resources and the impact of digital media on traditional conceptions of identity. The second part focuses on the digital economy, emphasizing the opportunities it affords through the creative industries, as well as the threat posed by the computerization of the financial industry, and the third part focuses on uses of digital media through a number of case studies relating to online reading, the new social movements, surveillance and the developing world.
 
Andrew White
Associate Professor of Creative Industries & Digital Media
Director of Research for the Faculty of Arts & Education
The School of International Communications
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
andrew [dot] white [at] nottingham [dot] edu [dot] cn
http://ningbo.academia.edu/AndrewWhite       
 

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