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Frontiers in New Media Research book cover

1st Edition

Frontiers in New Media Research

Edited By Francis L. F. Lee, Louis Leung, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Donna S.C. Chu Copyright 2013
326 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, existing social institutions, and the society at large at various levels of analysis. Macro-level... Read more

Preface  Ronald E. Rice  1. Introduction: Challenges for New Media Research  Francis L. F. Lee, Louis Leung, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Donna S. C. Chu  Part I: Techno-Social Formations  2. What’s the Use of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet?  Frank Webster  3. The Internet and Democratic Accountability: The Rise of the Fifth Estate  William H. Dutton  4. Surveillance Technologies and Social Transformation: Emerging Challenges of Socio-Technical Change  David Lyon  5. The Probability Archive: From Essence to Uncertainty in the Mediation of Knowledge  John Hartley  6. The Internet and Social Mobilization in China  Yong Hu  Part II: Recurring Issues  7. Online Social Network Sites and the Concept of Social Capital  Charles Steinfield, Nicole Ellison, Cliff Lampe and Jessica Vitak  8. A Retrospective on Convergence, Moral Panic, and the Internet  Sharon Strover  9. The Emerging Ecology of Online News  Stuart Allan  10. Who Would Miss Getting News Online and Why (Not)?  Hsiang Iris Chyi and Mengchieh Jacie Yang  11. The Influence of Third-Person Effects on Support for Restrictions of Internet Pornography Among College Students in Shanghai and Hong  Ven-hwei Lo, Ran Wei, Clement Y. K. So and Zhang Guoliang  Part III: Emerging Media  12. A Networked Self: Identity Performance and Sociability on Social Network Sites  Zizi Papacharissi  13. The Internet in Flux: Twitter and the Interpretative Flexibility of Microblogging  José van Dijck  14. Exploring the Pro-Am Interface between Production and Produsage  Axel Bruns  15. Fanatical Labor and Serious Leisure: A Case of Fansubbing in China  Donna S.C. Chu  16. From TV to Online to Mobile Phones: A National Study of U.S. College Students’ Multiplatform Video Use and Satisfaction  Louisa Ha, Dominik Leconte, and Jennifer Savidge

Biography

Francis L.F. Lee is associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Louis Leung is Professor of Journalism & Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and was Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Jack L. Qiu is associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Donna S.C. Chu is assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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