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New New Media by LEVINSON

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+ Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0134085663 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780134085661

About LEVINSON

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.

In this Section: 1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Full Table of Contents 1) Brief Table of Contents Chapter 1: Why New New Media? Chapter 2: Facebook Chapter 3: Twitter Chapter 4: YouTube Chapter 5: Wikipedia Chapter 6: Blogging Chapter 7: Foursquare and Hardware Chapter 8: Smaller Potatoes Chapter 9: The Dark Side Of New New Media Chapter 10: Politics and New New Media 2) Full Table of Contents Chapter 1: Why New New Media? Why New New Rather Than Social Media? Guiding Principles of New New Media New New Media Encompass Prior New Media Principles The Order and Content of the Chapters Speed in the Evolution of New New Media and Hardware The Prime Methodology: Learning by Doing Chapter 2: Facebook The Irresistible Appeal of Friends What Does Online Friendship Mean Fine-Tuning Online Friendship The Facebook Group and its Evolution Facebook Friends and Groups as Knowledge-Base Resources Facebook Friends as Real-Time Knowledge Resources Meeting Online Friends in the Real World Reconnecting with Old Friends Online Protection for the Hidden Dimension: Cleaning Up Your Online Pages Subjective and Objective Differences Among New New Media The Facebook Timeline Chapter 3: Twitter The Epitome of Immediacy Interpersonal + Mass Communication = Twitter Twitter as Smart T-Shirt or Jewelry Google+, Twitter, Facebook, and Pownce Twitter Dangers: The Congressman Who Tweeted Too Much The Other Congressman Who Tweeted Too Much Twitter vs. the Mullahs in Iran McLuhan as Microblogger Chapter 4: YouTube Obama Girl YouTube 2008 Presidential Primary Debates Telegenic + YouTube = Cybergenic YouTube Undeniability and Democracy YouTube Usurps Television as a Herald of Public Events YouTube Is Not Only Omni-Accessible and Free to Viewers - It's Free to Producers Obama as the New FDR in New New Media as Well as the New New Deal? Amateur YouTube Stars and Producers Viral Videos Viral Videos Gone Bad The YouTube Revolution in Popular Culture Roy Orbison's Guitar My Guitar Gently Weeps Through the Ages YouTube Retrieves MTV Will YouTube Put iTunes Out of Business? YouTube Refutes Lewis Mumford and Turns the Videoclip into a Transcript Tim Russert, 1950-2008 YouTube's Achilles' Heel: Copyright Comments as Verifiers on YouTube: The Fleetwoods The Pope's Channel YouTube as International Information Liberator Chapter 5: Wikipedia Pickles and Pericles Inclusionists vs. Exclusionists: Battle Between Wikipedian Heroes Neutrality of Editors and Conflicts of Interest Identity Problems All Wikipedians Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others Transparency on Wikipedia Pages Wikipedia vs. Britannica Old vs. New New Media in Reporting the Death of Tim Russert Wikipedia Wrongly Reports the Deaths of Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd Encyclopedia or Newspaper? Does Wikipedia Make Libraries Unnecessary? The United Kingdom vs. Wikipedia Chapter 6: Blogging A Thumbnail History of Electronic Writing Blogging About Anything, Forever Comment Moderation Commenting on the Blogs of Others Comments as Correctors MySpace Message from Stringer Bell of The Wire Changing the Words in Your Blog After Publication Long-Range Blogging and Linking Group Blogging Monetizing Your Blog Is Monetization Incompatible with the Ideals of Blogging? Dressing Up Your Blog with Images, Videos and Widgets Gauging the Readership of Your Blog Different Blogging Platforms Are Bloggers Entitled to the Same First Amendment Protection as Old-Media Journalists? Citizen Journalists, the First Amendment, and Occupy Wall Street Bloggers and Lobbyists Anonymity in Blogging Blogging for Others Changing the World with Your Blog A Town Supervisor and His Blog Bloggers in Pajamas Further Tensions Between New New Media and Older Forms The Need for Old-Media Reporting in an Age of New New Media Journalism Old Media and New New Media Symbiosis: Easter Eggs for Lost and Fringe Chapter 7: Foursquare and Hardware Foursquare and iPhone Check-Ins and Truths Privacy and Location The Inevitability of Mobile Media The Necessity of Hardware The Price of Mobility The New New Media Exile of Useless Places Smart Phones in the Car, in the Park, and in Bed Batteries as the Weak Spot iPhones, iPads, Bluetooth and Brains Chapter 8: Smaller Potatoes MySpace Digg and Reddit Second Life Podcasting Chapter 9: The Dark Side Of New New Media Pre-New New Media Abuses: Bullying, Flaming, and Trolling Online Gossiping and Cyberbullying Cyberstalking Tweeting and Terrorism The Craigslist Bank Heist Spam Old Media Overreaction to New New Abuses: The Library vs. the Blogger Chapter 10: Politics and New New Media Barack Obama, New New Media, and the 2008 Election The Tea Party and Twitter in 2010 The Arab Spring and Media Determinism Occupy Wall Street and the Resurgence of Direct Democracy The US Election of 2012

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New New Media by LEVINSON

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20150209

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