A Companion to New Media Dynamics

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
 
Introduction
John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns
 
Part 1 - Approaches and Antecedents
 
1. Media Studies and New Media Studies
Sean Cubitt
 
2. The Future of Digital Humanities Is a Matter of Words
Willard McCarty
 
3. Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History: The 'Gutenberg Parenthesis' as Restoration Topos
Thomas Pettitt
 
4. Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media: Dynamics of Evolution and Change
Peter Swirski
 
5. The Economics of New Media
John Quiggin
 
6. The End of Audiences? Theoretical Echoes of Reception amidst the Uncertainties of Use
Sonia Livingstone and Ranjana Das
 
7. The Emergence of Next Generation Internet Users
William H. Dutton and Grant Blank
 
8. National Web Studies: The Case of Iran Online
Richard Rogers, Esther Weltevrede, Sabine Niederer and Erik Borra
 
Part 2 - Dynamics of Change
 
Agency
 
9. In the Habitus of the New: Structure, Agency and the Social Media Habitus
Zizi Papacharissi and Emily Easton
 
10. Long Live Wikipedia? Sustainable Volunteerism and the Future of Crowdsourced Knowledge
Andrew Lih
 
Mobility
 
11. Changing Media with Mobiles
Gerard Goggin
 
12. Make Room for the Wii: Game Consoles and the Construction of Space
Ben Aslinger
 
Enterprise
 
13. Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers and Makers
Charles Leadbeater
 
14. The Dynamics of Digital Multisided Media Markets: How Media Organisations Learn from the IT Industries How to Engage with an Active Audience
Patrik Wikström
 
Search
 
15. Search and Networked Attention
Alexander Halavais
 
16. Against Search - Towards a New Computational Logic of Media Accessibility
Pelle Snickars
 
Network
 
17. Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mobile Web
Indrek Ibrus
 
18. Pseudonyms and the Rise of the Real Name Web
Bernie

John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His books include Creative Industries (2005), Television Truths (2008), Story Circle (2009), and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (2012).
 
Jean Burgess is Deputy Director, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. She is co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (2009), and co-editor of Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (2012).
 
Axel Bruns is Associate Professor, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005).

"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections." ( Choice , 1 September 2013) "I highly recommend the all encompassing and widely landmark book to any new and old media leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, technologists, academics, students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, government officials, public policy makers, nonprofit executives, and anyone interested in the ever changing and dynamic landscape of new media. This book provides insights and ideas that will provide the seed for future change and innovation across the entire new and old media environment." ( Blog Business World , 16 March 2013)

"Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections." (Choice, 1 September 2013)
 
"I highly recommend the all encompassing and widely landmark book to any new and old media leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, technologists, academics, students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, government officials, public policy makers, nonprofit executives, and anyone interested in the ever changing and dynamic landscape of new media. This book provides insights and ideas that will provide the seed for future change and innovation across the entire new and old media environment." (Blog Business World, 16 March 2013)