A Companion to New Media Dynamics [Hardcover]

• Presents a state-of-the-art collection of original readings relating to new media in terms of dynamic change
• Features interdisciplinary contributions encompassing the sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts
• Addresses a wide range of issues from the ownership and regulation of new media to their form and cultural uses
• Provides readers with a glimpse of new media dynamics at three levels of scale: the 'macro' or system level; the 'meso' or institutional level; and 'micro' or agency level

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xix

Introducing Dynamics: A New Approach to New Media 1
John Hartley, Jean Burgess, and Axel Bruns

Part 1 Approaches and Antecedents 13

1 Media Studies and New Media Studies 15
Sean Cubitt

2 The Future of Digital Humanities Is a Matter of Words 33
Willard McCarty

3 Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History 53
Thomas Pettitt

4 Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media 73
Peter Swirski

5 The Economics of New Media 90
John Quiggin

6 The End of Audiences? 104
Sonia Livingstone and Ranjana Das

7 The Emergence of Next-Generation Internet Users 122
Grant Blank and William H. Dutton