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Countless communication media have been developed throughout the history, ranging from handwriting to movable types press, from telegraph to telephone and radio, from photo to cinema and TV... This volume focuses on the latest (r)evolution, analyzing in detail digital communication technologies and...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Handbooks of communication science [hocs];
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
Countless communication media have been developed throughout the history, ranging from handwriting to movable types press, from telegraph to telephone and radio, from photo to cinema and TV... This volume focuses on the latest (r)evolution, analyzing in detail digital communication technologies and especially the internet. Most recent developments are approached from a theoretical point of view, as well as within different communication contexts. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource(xi, 576 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110271355（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | P96 |
| CLC: | G2 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series / Contents -- Communication technologies: An itinerary / 1. From orality to newspaper wire services: Conceptualizing a medium / 2. Point-to-point: telecommunications networks from the optical telegraph to the mobile telephone / 3. Cinema and technology: From painting to photography and cinema, up to digital motion pictures in theatres and on the net / 4. Recorded music / 5. Communication in video games: From players to player communities / 6. Hypermedia, internet and the web / 7. Virtuality: VR as metamedia and herald of our future realities / 8. Virtual communities and social networks / 9. Web 2.0 and 3.0 / 10. ICTs and the dialectics of development / 11. Information quality and information overload: The promises and perils of the information age / 12. User experience and usability / 13. Impact of new media: A corrective / 14. Research methods on the Internet / 15. Digital Natives, New Millennium Learners and Generation Y, does age matter? Data and reflection from the higher education context / 16. Mobile media and communication / 17. Legal issues in a networked world / 18. Ethical issues in Internet communication / 19. Commerce / 20. Workplace relationships: Telework, worklife balance, social support, negative features, and individual/organizational outcomes / 21. Marketing and public relations / 22. From |