472 Pages
by Routledge

472 Pages
by Routledge

Seeking to better understand the interaction between users and new media and among individuals within the ambit of new media, this two-volume set systematically investigates the new media user both as an integral individual in networks and as an individual in mediatized time and space. The first volume revisits the multiple ways in which new media users have mutated from a passive "audience" to... Read more
Volume 1:  1. Three Clues of New Media Development and "Nodification" of Users  2. Users as Communication Network Nodes and Distributed Production and Communication  3. Individual Nodes and New Model of Information Consumption  4. New Media Users as Social Network Nodes  5. Interactions of Individual Nodes in Social Networks  6. Mutual Social Movement Brought by Node Interactions  7. New Media Users as Service Network Nodes  8. Conclusion  Volume 2:  1. Mediatized Time: Differentiation and Alternation  2. Mediatized Space: Flowing and Intertwined  3. Mediatized Self-Expression: Performance and Discipline  4. The Survival of Mediatization: Integration and Interaction of Reality and Virtual Space  5. New Drivers of Mediatization: Data and Algorithms  6. Mediatization in the Intelligent Age: Cyborg and New Human-Machine Relationship

Biography

Peng Lan is a Professor at the School of Journalism, Renmin University of China. She is a highly cited scholar in the area of new media communication and is also one of the pioneers engaging in the teaching and studies of new media in China.