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The new media invasion : digital technologies and the world they unmake
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The new media invasion : digital technologies and the world they unmake / John David Ebert.
ISBN
9780786465606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0786465603 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., c2011.
Physical Description
xi, 219 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This study explores how Internet entities like Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google, and gadgets such as digital cameras, cell phones, video games, robots, drones, and all things MacIntosh have affected everything from the book industry and copyright law to how we conduct social relationships and consider knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 13, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Amazon.com, the Kindle, and the collapse of the book industry
YouTube and the twilight of copyright
On Facebook we're all being flattened together
Wikipedia, or, The catastrophe of knowledge
WikiLeaks and the death of culture
On the metaphysics of Google Earth
The mythology and metaphysics of the Macintosh
Digital photography and the end of the visionary image
How cell phones disrupt the flows
The killing eye : video games, surrogate violence, and the dismantling of social machines
Robots, drones, and the disappearance of the human being
A few words on the Ovei Pod and the end of history.
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