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Discusses how 鈥渘ew new media鈥� are transforming our culture
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Foursquare, blogging 鈥� these and other 鈥渘ew new media鈥� are used by hundreds of millions worldwide and are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect presidents to how we watch television.听听 New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.
New new media, as opposed to the traditional 鈥渘ew media鈥� of email and websites, allow and encourage all consumers to become producers, readers to become writers and publishers, viewers to become performers - and have engendered such worldwide movements as The Arab Spring, The Tea Party, 听and Occupy Wall Street. 听This catalytic feature of contemporary media prompts an entirely new look at how mass media, culture, and industry are undergoing the most profound changes since the advent of the alphabet and the printing press.
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Foursquare, blogging 鈥� these and other 鈥渘ew new media鈥� are used by hundreds of millions worldwide and are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect presidents to how we watch television.听听 New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.
New new media, as opposed to the traditional 鈥渘ew media鈥� of email and websites, allow and encourage all consumers to become producers, readers to become writers and publishers, viewers to become performers - and have engendered such worldwide movements as The Arab Spring, The Tea Party, 听and Occupy Wall Street. 听This catalytic feature of contemporary media prompts an entirely new look at how mass media, culture, and industry are undergoing the most profound changes since the advent of the alphabet and the printing press.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack 0134085663 / ValuePack 9780134085661
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347 pages, Hardcover
First published December 3, 2014
11 people are currently reading
142 people want to read
About the author
Paul Levinson
88听books339听followersPaul Levinson, PhD, is an author, singer-songwriter, professor, and media commentator. His first novel, The Silk Code, won the Locus Award for best first science fiction novel of 1999. Entertainment Weekly called his 2006 novel, The Plot to Save Socrates, 鈥渃hallenging fun鈥�. Both novels were reissued as "author's cut" ebooks in 2012, and Unburning Alexandria, sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates, was published in 2013. Chronica - the third novel in the Sierra Waters time travel trilogy - followed in 2014. His 1995 award-nominated novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case," was made into a short film, now on Amazon Prime Video. His 2022 alternate history short story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life," was made into a radioplay, streaming free since March 2023, and it won the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction. "It's Real Life" was expanded into a novel, and published in 2024. Paul Levinson was President of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), 1998-2001. His nine nonfiction books on the history and future of media have been translated into a dozen languages around the world, and have been reviewed in The New York Times, Wired, and major newspapers and magazines. Two shorter books, McLuhan in an Age of Social Media and Fake News in Real Context, were published in 2015-2016, and are frequently updated. Levinson appears on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and numerous other television and radio shows and podcasts. His 1972 album, Twice Upon a Rhyme, has been reissued on CD and remastered vinyl and is available on Bandcamp and iTunes. His first new album since Twice Upon A Rhyme - Welcome Up: Songs of Space Time - was released by Old Bear Records on CD and digital, and Light in the Attic Records on vinyl, in 2020. Levinson is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC.
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December 12, 2010
Ugh. Levinson is rather full of himself, but knowledgeable about different sources of new new media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia...). It really is pretty well written, but Levinson references his own blog, podcast, science-fiction books, and essentially anything else he has created with even the slightest relevance to the topic at hand. The book isn't all that long as it is, but I swear it could 25 pages shorter if all the self-referential things were removed.
Overall, I assume it would be difficult to find a book with the range of information New New Media contains. Maybe Levinson's ruthless self promotion won't bother you, but it just didn't sit well with me.
Overall, I assume it would be difficult to find a book with the range of information New New Media contains. Maybe Levinson's ruthless self promotion won't bother you, but it just didn't sit well with me.
July 26, 2024
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November 4, 2010
Seemed mostly like a platform to talk about himself and how "into" new new media he is.
January 26, 2012
Great books from communication scholar!
I always love to read this kind of stuffs, esp related to new social media.
mr. levinson describe and explained them one by one and that's awesome!
In2012, i am hoping to read more communication books like this one
I always love to read this kind of stuffs, esp related to new social media.
mr. levinson describe and explained them one by one and that's awesome!
In2012, i am hoping to read more communication books like this one
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September 6, 2013Chapter 6. Blogging (should be blogs / wikkies)
p. 82. Chapter 6. Blogging is 鈥渢he first big player鈥� in the new new media revolution by the easy of use (any reader can become a writer) blog requires no production.
Although speaking is easier then writing鈥� Writing always had some advantages over speaking
Writing is permanent and has greater control of the message. A speaker has harder time disguising emotions in a speech.
Blogging takes the dissemination of news and opinion one big step beyond the telegraphs: no reporters and no newspapers (no production, p. 82).
p. 83 personalization or 鈥渄e-professionalization鈥�
fax was for one to one communication, whereas blog goes everywhere.
Permanence is one of the most revolutionary aspects of new new media (I will argue the word of choice. It is continuance not permanence, since digital media is very volatile) . The author contradict himself by admitting that blogger can remove easily parts or entire blog (so it is NOT permanent)
Blogs lack the reliable localibility of books (old-fashion thinking, trying to adapt old thinking to new media)
p. 85 blog commenting as the ubiquitous greek chorus.
p. 86 comments as correctors
p. 90 group blogging is actually wikies.
p. 97 photoblogs: Photobucket, Instagram Flickr Pinterest. (Actually Twitter and Tumbler must be here)
p. 98. How one measures the impact. Statcounter, Alexa, Klout.
p. 99 blogging platforms.
p. p. 100 are bloggers entitles to the same first amendment protection as old-media journalists. The tactic of big companies scaring small bloggers to silence the truth: all potential of the blogs mentioned above eradicated? P. 102 citizen journalists, first amendment and occupy wall street.
p. 104 anonymity in blogging. P. 106 wikileaks
p. 148 podcasting.
p. 82. Chapter 6. Blogging is 鈥渢he first big player鈥� in the new new media revolution by the easy of use (any reader can become a writer) blog requires no production.
Although speaking is easier then writing鈥� Writing always had some advantages over speaking
Writing is permanent and has greater control of the message. A speaker has harder time disguising emotions in a speech.
Blogging takes the dissemination of news and opinion one big step beyond the telegraphs: no reporters and no newspapers (no production, p. 82).
p. 83 personalization or 鈥渄e-professionalization鈥�
fax was for one to one communication, whereas blog goes everywhere.
Permanence is one of the most revolutionary aspects of new new media (I will argue the word of choice. It is continuance not permanence, since digital media is very volatile) . The author contradict himself by admitting that blogger can remove easily parts or entire blog (so it is NOT permanent)
Blogs lack the reliable localibility of books (old-fashion thinking, trying to adapt old thinking to new media)
p. 85 blog commenting as the ubiquitous greek chorus.
p. 86 comments as correctors
p. 90 group blogging is actually wikies.
p. 97 photoblogs: Photobucket, Instagram Flickr Pinterest. (Actually Twitter and Tumbler must be here)
p. 98. How one measures the impact. Statcounter, Alexa, Klout.
p. 99 blogging platforms.
p. p. 100 are bloggers entitles to the same first amendment protection as old-media journalists. The tactic of big companies scaring small bloggers to silence the truth: all potential of the blogs mentioned above eradicated? P. 102 citizen journalists, first amendment and occupy wall street.
p. 104 anonymity in blogging. P. 106 wikileaks
p. 148 podcasting.
January 22, 2013
Not yet dated. A good description of several forms of digital communication- not sure I would call them New New Media- I don't like his semantic use of "new new".
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May 1, 2017
This is not the kind of book I would typically read, but as it was required reading for a class, I did finish it. Overall this was an okay look into social media and its impact on society. It was pretty decent as a textbook, a bit dull for recreational reading.
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