New Media: An Introduction

by Terry Flew

New An Introduction provides a comprehensive, accessible and timely overview of the major forces shaping new media technologies. It understands the new media not simply as forms of technological hardware, but also as 'social software', both shaping and being shaped by the social,
cultural, political and economic environments in which they are developed and used. New media developments are analysed in relation to broader trends of digitisation, convergence, globalisation, interactivity, networking and the growth of creative industries in the context of the 'new' or 'creative
economy'. In the second edition of New Media new material on computer games and Internet Law has been included, with particular reference to massive multi-player online games, the open source movement and the future of copyright and intellectual property regimes. Mobile telephony, wireless
technologies, social software, indigenous new media initiatives and the rise of alternative online media forms are some of the new media developments discussed in this highly original and successful text book.

Genres: Journalism, Game Design, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published February 6, 2003

About the author

Terry Flew is Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology. He is the president of the International Communication Association, and the author of several books, including Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), and Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015), co-authored with Stuart Cunnningham and Adam Swift. He is currently at work on a book about regulating digital platforms.

Reviews

[Magik]

I had to read this for school so it was automatically going to be a bore because school texts are never interesting but good lord this book was the worst of the worst. The information was good I guess but it was so dryly delivered I had to spend almost four times as much time as I should have rereading passages just so I could focus long enough to make heads or tails of what was being said. Which is sad because the kind of stuff being talked about is interesting to me and was relevant to my major.

[Richard Wolff]

Generally, a good overview of new media. Lots of charts and analysis of trends, which is good. Reading is very dry. It does cover a range of topics, including new media journalism and gaming. Some sections include very usable information; others, not so much.

[Nulur]

Buku ini bagus banget untuk orang-orang yang tertarik dengan kemajuan teknologi komunikasi, terutama internet. Ada beberapa aspeknya sama sosial dan kultural masyarakat yang ada saat ini.

[Rebecca Tidd]

The book is very informative about new media, old media, and media to come with various examples and comparisons, but I simply do not have interest in the subject.

[Kai Crawford]

I just wasn't interested in the topic, especially not from an academic approach.