Navigating Technomedia
Subtitle: Caught in the Web
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: December 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780742560239
Subjects: Social Science; Computers - General Information; Sociology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; General; Digital media; Information Technology; Social aspects; Virtual reality
Description: "This is an introductory survey of what author Sam Han calls the "technomedia," the generation of communication technologies after television, cell phones, and the first wave of the Internet. Beginning with a history of the media, the book explores the nature and effects of technomedia like the blogosphere, Blackberries, and related technologies. Because such media are transforming the relations of their users to the social environment, the topic is fast becoming an important focus of modern social theory."--BOOK JACKET.