New Media, Communication, and Society

List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Mary Ann Allison/Cheryl A. Casey: Welcome and How to Use This Book - Mary Ann Allison: You, Media, and the Global Brain - Mary Ann Allison: Commoners Become Media Kings - Cheryl A. Casey: People of the Word - Mary Ann Allison: Networks: A Wealth of Stories - Cheryl A. Casey: Network Structure - Cheryl A. Casey: Big News Power - Cheryl A. Casey: The Dark Side of the Internet - Cheryl A. Casey/Mary Ann Allison: The Physical Side of the Internet - Mary Ann Allison: Hearing and Seeing Different Societies - Cheryl A. Casey: The Medium Is the Message - Cheryl A. Casey: Rewiring Our Social, Political, and Intellectual Lives - Mary Ann Allison: Staying Alive on Facebook - Cheryl A. Casey: Mobiles - Cheryl A. Casey: Digital Gaming - Cheryl A. Casey: Bloggers - Cheryl A. Casey: Information Literacy - Mary Ann Allison: Wikipedia: Not Just Wow! But How? - Mary Ann Allison: Participatory Media - Cheryl A. Casey: Social Media and Mindful Multitasking - Mary Ann Allison: Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed - Mary Ann Allison: Skilled Conversation Is a New Medium - Mary Ann Allison: You Have a Choice - Mary Ann Allison: Does Your Life Depend on Being Connected? - Cheryl A. Casey: New Media Reshapes Governments - Cheryl A. Casey: New Media Reshapes Economics and Jobs - Cheryl A. Casey: Big Data - Cheryl A. Casey: Spotlights: Arab Spring and Chinese Reality TV - Mary Ann Allison: Will ICT-Supported Technology Create Abundance? - Mary Ann Allison: Hyper-Connected Risks: A Global Picture - Mary Ann Allison: A Media Dashboard for Humanity - Mary Ann Allison/Cheryl A. Casey: An End and a Beginning: Seeing Ourselves as Our Global Brain Might See Us - Index.

Mary Ann Allison, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary scholar and professor emerita at Hofstra University. She has been teacher of the year twice and won the first mentor of the year award. She won the Innis Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the field of Media Ecology.

Cheryl A. Casey, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Communication at Champlain College. She has published and presented work in critical media studies, media ecology, and communication theory. She has also served as Executive Director of the Eastern Communication Association.

"New Media, Communication, and Society by Mary Ann Allison and Cheryl A. Casey is an extremely thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible resource for students, teachers, general readers, and anyone else engaged in one of the key challenges that we all face: making sense of the contours and consequences of the media environment that we live in. The authors concisely survey a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical material that is essential to understanding and navigating contemporary media, and ask and help us answer many of the most significant media-related questions that we need to grapple with. At a time when we most need it, they provide a detailed, reliable, and invaluable overview of what we are doing, what is being done to us, and what we can do to keep our inevitable immersion in media from being unintelligible and overwhelming."-Sidney Gottlieb, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut