New Media
Description:... This volume, one of the first titles in the Reference Shelf 2006 series, brings together 31 articles from newspapers, magazines, news services, and websites from 2003-2005 including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, The New York Times, The Nation, and USA Today, discussing new types of media, their influences on the world, use as an educational tool, impact on the entertainment industry, and risks. Several articles emphasize blogging and the news media, and others examine e-literature, podcasts, mobile TV, gaming, net predators, and Wikipedia. The book has an annotated list of further articles that incorporates websites. The appendix contains the 1984 essay ʺIs It Okay to Be a Luddite?ʺ by novelist Thomas Pynchon. Also includes information on blogosphere, cell phones, e-books, education, Internet, journalism, Library of Congress, literature, mainstream media, MySpace.com, newspaper industry, political campaigns, politics, youth, etc.
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