Understanding New Media
- Eugenia Siapera - Dublin City University (DCU)
New media are everywhere, yet with so many technological developments and theoretical perspectives understanding them has never been more difficult. This textbook explains the key concepts and approaches to the impact of new media on the economy, society, identity, politics, friendship, citizenship and everyday life. Putting the student first, this book:
- Engages the reader with integrated, up-to-date case studies
- Brings it all together with chapter summary charts
- Challenges students to apply concepts with e-tivities
- Provides key further online readings at www.sagepub.co.uk/siapera
This is both starting point and map for any student of new media.
Eugenia Siapera's Understanding New Media offers an admirably clear-sighted and engaging analysis of contemporary forms of mediation, illuminating the dynamics of new media across social, political and cultural spheres while skilfully avoiding the many traps that abound in this field - of hyperbole, obfuscation, partiality and lack of empirical grounding. She provokes her reader to think afresh about familiar phenomena, to synthesise diverse theoretical positions, and to stretch their imaginations to anticipate what is coming
Professor Sonia Livingstone
Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science
An excellent introduction to the past, present and future of the electronic, networked media world. By carefully examining the complex interactions between society and media, Siapera insightfully illuminates the social, political, economic and cultural consequences of our increasingly electronically networked and mediated world. This book will be a highly useful teaching tool and an engaging read for students, teachers and scholars
Steve JonesUniversity of Illinois, Chicago
A good book, and I will recommend it to students writing projects on new media.
Good review of key topics and major theorethical frameworks on new media.
The book is relevant for the Social Media class that I teach since it provides insightful background knowledge to the understanding of new media, particularly an overview of different theoretical perspectives on new media.
A useful textbook with clearly structured and presented ideas that enable students to think about the development of new media and its place within society, culture, politics and the economy.
Wonderful and holistic introduction to new media studies.
offers a very good overview about the broad topic on a thorough theoretical level also including some criticial thoughts that most texts fail to mention
This book was well written in that it makes clear areas of research which students are known to find complicated. It breaks research methods into digestable sizes and in text which is easy to understand. I also enjoyed the lay out of the book.
This is a very important book on new media which contains relevant discussions on theory and case studies. My Communication as a social force course covers more topics so the book can be a useful supplement source in the future.
Not adopted in this course, which have become overloaded. Understanding New Media is though good for other courses like the international course Analyzing Digital Journalism and also for teaching at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia in our teacher exchange project.