Explores our developing participatory online culture, establishing the core principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation in environments, from open source through blogs and Wikipedia to Second Life.
Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has ...
Digital technologies have transformed the way many creative works are generated, disseminated and used.
This book suggests a more nuanced approach to understanding how blogospheres serve communication needs, how they exist in relation to one another, where they exist apart as well as where they overlap, and how they interact with other forms ...
Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view.
The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm.
This volume gets beyond simple descriptions of the values and processes involved in community media and is deliberately seeking argument and structured debate around the issues of this vibrant sector of the media.
Die Enzyklopädie ist als Online- und Printausgabe erhältlich. - Hochaktuelle und tief gehende Betrachtung wichtiger Themen aus dem Bereich der Kommunikation, u.a. Geschichte, Systematik und praktisches Potenzial der Kommunikationstheorie.
Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and ...