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New New Media, 2nd Edition

LEVINSON

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Discusses how “new new media” are transforming our culture

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Foursquare, blogging … these and other “new new media“ are used by hundreds of millions worldwide and 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.

New new media, as opposed to the traditional “new media” of email and websites, allow and encourage all consumers to become producers, readers to become writers and publishers, viewers to become performers - and have engendered such worldwide movements as The Arab Spring, The Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street. This catalytic feature of contemporary media prompts an entirely new look at how mass media, culture, and industry are undergoing the most profound changes since the advent of the alphabet and the printing press.

Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

Discuss the impact new new media have on our society
Understand the mechanics of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and other types of new new media
Discover the newest new media - Foursquare, Pinterest, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Goggle+

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As a part of the Penguin Academic series, New New Media offers students the most cutting-edge information at a competitive, low price.
New New Media is about the advent and the impact of media newer than the “new” media of e-mail and the Internet.
The book discusses how new new media are turning consumers of media (children, teens, adults) into producers of media, and facilitating global networks.
Analyzed in greater depth than found in other contemporary resources, readers are able to gain insight not only into the mechanics of YouTube, Wikipedia, Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook, but also into the role these new new media are actively playing in shaping our society.
Extensive research and sources, as well as the author’s first-hand experience as a practitioner with all of the media discussed in the book, provides an academic framework through which to explore and understand new new media.
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New to This Edition

The book shows how current events such as the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Indignant movements have been driven and facilitated by new new media such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube (ex. pp. 178-179).
Discussion of the role new new media play in corporate communication is included.
The 2^nd edition focuses on media that further integrate physical and virtual worlds—such as FourSquare, which allows people to “check in” from anywhere on the Earth. (ex. p. 118)
The book focuses on upcoming elections in 2012 and discusses the use of new new media in the 2010 election. (ex. p. 182)
The role of new new media is discussed in relation to elections in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Updated content on blogging explores the public rights and future of new journalism. (ex. p. 100)
Updated analysis of Myspace, Podcasting, Digg, and Second Life examines the evolution and fall of new media giants. (Ch. 8)
MySearchLab with eText can be packaged with this text.
- MySearchLab provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
- eText – Just like the printed text, you can highlight and add notes to the eText or download it to your iPad.
- Assessment – Chapter quizzes and flashcards offer immediate feedback and report directly to the gradebook.
- Writing and Research – A wide range of writing, grammar and research tools and access to a variety of academic journals, census data, Associated Press newsfeeds, and discipline-specific readings help you hone your writing and research skills.

About the Author(s)

Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, and the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten 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. Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "Nightline" (ABC), Dylan Ratigan (MSNBC) and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued on mini-CD by Big Pink Records in 2009, and was re-issued in a vinyl remastered re-pressing by Sound of Salvation/Whiplash Records in December 2010. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, writes political and media commentary for Mediaite, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009.

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