New Media and Technocultures Reader

<p>The study of new media has developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms and has generated a great deal of excitement hype and confusion. <em>The New Media & Technocultures Reader</em> gathers texts which map the cultural implications of new media encapsulating and challenging key debates theoretical positions and approaches to research.</p><p><em>The New Media & Technocultures Reader</em> offers students further reading on and exploration of key issues and topics raised in the textbook <em>New Media: A Critical Introduction</em>. The <em>Reader</em> draws on various disciplinary stances (including visual culture; media and cultural history; media theory; media production; philosophy and the history of the sciences; political economy and sociology) offering readers a rich and interdisciplinary resource. Critical and accessible editorial commentary guides the reader between the extracts and through the debates.</p>