New New Media - Softcover

Levinson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205673309 ISBN 13: 9780205673308

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

YouTube, blogging, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life and other ";new new media"; are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect Presidents to how we watch television. New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Levinson is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. Professor Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News,"  "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS),  "Nightline" (ABC), NPR, and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, comments on politics and media on Mediaite, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10  Academic Twitterers" in 2009.  Paul Levinson's eight nonfiction books, including  The Soft Edge (1997), Digital  McLuhan (1999),  Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into twelve languages.  His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006).  His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards.

Review:

"Paul Levinson takes you on a  tour of media innovations that are transforming our world. He's not just a scholar, he's an explorer. New New Media is an indispensable guide."
--Joan Walsh, Editor-in-Chief of Salon.com

"Paul Levinson provides an invaluable and encyclopaedic guide to the newest of new media invented so far." --Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine

"Insightful and comprehensive. The overviews are great for people who want to quickly get up-to-speed or Web addicts who want to branch out, and the anecdotes and history will delight old-timers." --Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl podcast

"New New Media is definitely a fine choice for media enthusiasts, students, professionals..." --Bradley E. Wiggins, Journal of Communications Media Studies

"Paul Levinson's book is a much-needed work, bothfor its incisive, user-friendly overview of new new media and for its optimismabout the positive potential of these technologies for society and democraticaction." - Barna Donovan, Explorations in Media Ecology

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0205673309
• ISBN 13: 9780205673308
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240