Title: Connectivity, networks and flows : conceptualizing contemporary communications /
Authors: Hepp, Andreas.
Publisher: Hampton Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Mass media Social aspects; Communication
Abstract: "This book offers its readers a critical engagement with three key concepts for social and communication theory today - connectivity, networks and flows. The contributors are committed to conceptualizing contemporary communications in a changing world. They point to globalizing and deterritorializing processes, and to the increasing significance of mobilities in late modern existence - yet this is also a book about the continuing importance of locality, senses of place and physically copresent interaction in daily living.".
Contents: Connectivity, networks and flows / Andreas Hepp ... [et al.] -- Media connectivity : concepts, conditions and consequences / Friedrich Krotz -- Translocal media cultures : networks of the media and globalization / Andreas Hepp -- "Your life--to go" : the cultural impact of new media technologies / John Tomlinson -- The TIMES convergence of mediality of communication as change in cultural solidarity : convergent mobile telephones and laptops and new flows, networks and connectivity / Carsten Winter -- Actor network theory and media : do they connect and on what terms? / Nick Couldry -- Network theory and human action : theoretical concepts and empirical applications / Thorsten Quandt -- Undercurrents : postcolonial cyberfeminism, a mailing list and the network society / Maren Hartmann -- Towards a network sociality / Andreas Wittel -- Conceptualizing place in a world of flows / Shaun Moores.