New Media & Society - Out next month
Volume 1 Issue 1 - Publication Date: 1 April 1999
Table of Contents:
Editorial
Themed Section
What's New About New Media?
Introduction
Roger Silverstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Underdetermination
Mark Poster University of California, Irvine, USA
New media and knowledge
Kevin Robins University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Artifacts and paradoxes in new media
Ronald E. Rice Rutgers University, Newark, USA
The construction of new digital media
Patrice Flichy Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) /
Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Soci`t`s (LATTS)
Human captital in information economies
William H. Melody Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
The language and nature of the Internet : the meaning of global Cheris
Kramarae University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
New media and news : implications for the future of journalism John V.
Pavlik Columbia University, New York, USA
New media, new audiences?
Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
The new media and democratic politics
Stephen Coleman The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government,
London
The public at the table : from public access to public participation
Lana F. Rakow North Dakota State University, USA
Articles (including abstracts)
Abstracts:
The domestication of video-on-demand : folk understanding of a new
technology
Rich Ling, Siri Nilsen and Stephan Granhaug Telnor R&D, Norway
This article describes several of the elements that have relevance in
the integration of video-on-demand into the home. The specific case
examined here involves a trial carried out in Oslo, Norway. Using
qualitative methods, the study describes how a selection of users
integrated the technology into the mental and physical contexts of
their everyday lives. Video-on-demand is a technology that is outside
our taken-for-granted experience and thus its integration presents a
chance to observe the domestication of technology in everyday life.
Understanding the development of online newspapers : using
computer-mediated communication theorizing to study Internet
publishing
Pablo Boczkowski Cornell University, New York, USA
The central argument of this article is that the social study of
computer-mediated communication (CMC) has generated knowledge about at
least four issues that have figured prominently in the development of
online newspapers. Thus, CMC scholarship becomes relevant to analyzing
the electronic version of a medium that has traditionally been the
almost exclusive province of mass communication theorizing. Four
issues are identified: (1) the social consequences of the increased
anonymity of interlocutors; (2) the reconfiguration of territorially-
and interest-based associations; (3) the processes that mediate
between the introduction of new artifacts and their social outcomes;
and (4) the mutual shaping of consumers and technologies. The role
each has had in the construction of online newspapers is explicated
and potential avenues for further research are suggested. Finally,
Boczkowski maintains that the work outlined in this article fosters
two dialogues crucial to the future of communication in increasingly
networked societies: those between CMC and mass communication
scholarship, and between media theory and practice.
Review Essay
The one-dimensional network society of Manuel Castells Jan A.G.M. Van
Dijk University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Book Reviews
Not nearly smart enough: Artificial Intelligence under feminist
scrutiny
Alison Adam, Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine
Little Brother Facing Up To Big Brother?
Philip Agre and Marc Rotenberg (eds), Technology and Privacy: The New
Landscape, reviewed by Paul Baker
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Privacy on the Line: The Politics
of Wiretapping and Encryption
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