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Rhetoric about media technology tends to fall into two extreme categories: unequivocal celebration or blanket condemnation. This is particularly true in debate over the clash of values when first world media infiltrate third world audiences. Bringing together the best new work on contemporary media practices, technologies, and policies, the essayists in Global Currents argue that neither of these extreme views accurately represents the role of media technology today. New ways of thinking about film, television, music, and the internet demonstrate that it is not only media technologies that affect the cultures into which they are introduced—it is just as likely that the receiving culture will change the media. Topics covered in the volume include copyright law and surveillance technology, cyber activism in the African Diaspora, transnational monopolies and local television industries, the marketing and consumption of “global music,” “click politics” and the war on Afghanistan, the techno-politics of distance education, artificial intelligence and global legal institutions, and traveling and “squatting” in digital space. Balanced between major theoretical positions and original field research, the selections address the political and cultural meanings that surround and configure new technologies.

Globalization. --- Communication, International. --- Mass media and technology. --- Technology and mass media --- Technology --- International communication --- World communication --- Communication --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement

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A call for a "rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and inventions that will be equally at home with critical theory and media practice and will be prepared and able to make a difference--academically, institutionally, politically, ethically, and aesthetically" (p. 201).

Mass media and technology --- Digital media --- Social media. --- Social aspects. --- User-generated media --- Technology and mass media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Technology --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Critical Theory

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Digital media --- Technology --- Mass media and technology. --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Technology and mass media --- Social aspects. --- Public opinion. --- Ciència --- Mitjans de comunicació digitals --- Mitjans de comunicació de massa i tecnologia --- Tecnologia --- Aspectes socials --- Opinió pública --- Ciència i societat --- Sociologia de la ciència --- Ciències pures

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The Media Convergence Handbook sheds new light on the complexity of media convergence and the related business challenges. Approaching the topic from a managerial, technological as well as end-consumer perspective, it acts as a reference book and educational resource in the field. Media convergence at business level may imply transforming business models and using multiplatform content production and distribution tools. However, it is shown that the implementation of convergence strategies can only succeed when expectations and aspirations of every actor involved are taken into account. Media consumers, content producers and managers face different challenges in the process of media convergence. Volume II of the Media Convergence Handbook tackles these challenges by discussing media business models, production, and users' experience and perspectives from a technological convergence viewpoint.

Business. --- Industrial management. --- Management. --- Information technology. --- Business --- Business and Management. --- Media Management. --- IT in Business. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Data processing. --- Convergence (Telecommunication) --- Mass media. --- Mass media and technology. --- Technology and mass media --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Technology --- Communication --- Telecommunication --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- IT (Information technology) --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Industrial organization --- Business—Data processing.

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"Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of "the network" as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where "the human" is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks. "-- "Examines how "the human" is produced in relation to technological changes, foregrounding the necessity of theoretical and archaeological perspectives for understanding contemporary media culture"--

Mass communications --- Mass media and culture. --- Mass media and technology. --- Social media. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Médias et culture. --- Médias et technologie --- Médias sociaux. --- Mass media and culture --- Mass media and technology --- Social media --- Médias et technologie. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Technology and mass media --- Technology --- Culture and mass media --- Culture --- Médias et culture. --- Médias et technologie. --- Médias sociaux.