"The fascinating essays gathered here consider how the digital age has changed the way society communicates, views itself, promotes its ideologies, and unites diverse communities....Written by experts in their respective fields, each of the 24-essays takes an insightful look at some aspect of Web culture. A thought-provoking, wide-ranging glimpse at how the Web can reform, instruct, control, and promote freedom of thought, this timely book will be a worthwhile addition to any library."--Choice
"Web.Studies sets the agenda for a new period of media research, one that gets to grips with the significance of new communications technologies and the global spaces in which they are so rapidly developing. I believe that this book will help considerably to take media studies in new directions."--Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, U.K.
"Like the Web itself, Web.Studies is by turns stimulating, informative, and provocative. It provides a useful and diverse collection of resources that will help us to understand the Web as a social and cultural medium, not just as a form of 'information technology.'"--David Buckingham, Institute of Education, University of London
"A thought-provoking, wide-ranging glimpse at how the Web can reform, instruct, control, and promote freedom of thought..."--Choice
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This exciting and engaging book explores the ways in which people, organizations, and companies are using the Internet to project their interests and concerns into the world. Beginning with an introduction to cyberculture studies and ways to studying the Web, Web.Studies moves on to consider everyday web life, Web art and culture, Web business, and global Web politics and protest. Topics covered range from fan Web sites, web identities, and Web design trends, to global capitalism and Web allure, cybercrime and the politics of hacking and propaganda warfare via the Web. Throughout the book are suggestions for ways in which students can use the Web to further their own research. While there has been an explosion of books on the Internet, this is the first to offer students and general readers a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the new Web-based media culture.
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