New media: An important introduction is a comprehensive introduction to culture, history, technologies and new media theories. This book is written specifically for students, and believes that the ways in which "new media is prepared" are really new, assesses the claims of the media revolution and technology, and sets new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.

Authors offer a wide range of topics, including: how to define new media properties. Social and political uses of new media and new communications; new media technologies, politics and globalization; daily life and new media. Theories of interaction, simulation, and the new economics of media; autobiography, electronic life, the history of automatism and artificial life.

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Research sites More online reading links to specific arguments or discussion topics in book links to key researchers in the new media field.

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