Mediamorphosis: Understanding New MediaThis book is about technological change within human communication and the media. Not technical, this work is an overview and evaluation of new communication technologies. Roger Fidler demystifies emerging media technologies and provides a structure for understanding their potential influences on the popular forms of mainstream media such as newspapers, magazines, television and radio. |
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Contents
chapter | 1 |
The 30year rule | 8 |
The importance of early adopters | 14 |
The mediamorphic process | 22 |
chapter | 31 |
The broadcast domain | 37 |
Inherited media traits | 44 |
chapter three | 53 |
Cultural context of the third mediamorphosis | 136 |
The Viewtron experience | 143 |
The trials of interactive TV | 159 |
chapter seven | 167 |
Living in virtual worlds | 175 |
Future control and social issues | 188 |
chapter eight | 195 |
Nextgeneration television technology | 203 |
Written language and the second great mediamorphosis | 61 |
Digital language and the third great mediamorphosis | 71 |
The mediamorphic role of language in perspective | 79 |
The electronic age | 89 |
The computer age | 100 |
Technologies of the third mediamorphosis in perspective | 107 |
Political forces | 121 |
Economic forces | 127 |
Mediamorphosis within the broadcast domain | 216 |
chapter nine | 219 |
Gutenbergs legacy | 225 |
Future control and social issues | 244 |
Mediamorphosis within the document domain | 251 |
Keeping the future in perspective | 263 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media Journalism and Communiations Series Journalism and communication for a new century |
| Author | Roger F. Fidler |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pine Forge Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0803990863, 9780803990869 |
| Length | 302 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Media Studies |
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