The new media invasion
Subtitle: digital technologies and the world they unmake
By: John David Ebert
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780786465606
Subjects: Digital media; Technology and civilization; Internet; Social aspects; Modern Civilization; Information technology
Description: "This study explores how Internet entities like Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google, and gadgets such as digital cameras, cell phones, video games, robots, drones, and all things MacIntosh have affected everything from the book industry and copyright law to how we conduct social relationships and consider knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Amazon.com, the Kindle, and the collapse of the book industry; title: YouTube and the twilight of copyright; title: On Facebook we're all being flattened together; title: Wikipedia, or, The catastrophe of knowledge; title: WikiLeaks and the death of culture; title: On the metaphysics of Google Earth; title: The mythology and metaphysics of the Macintosh; title: Digital photography and the end of the visionary image; title: How cell phones disrupt the flows; title: The killing eye : video games, surrogate violence, and the dismantling of social machines; title: Robots, drones, and the disappearance of the human being; title: A few words on the Ovei Pod and the end of history.