New Media & Society
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New Media Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. This journal is published by Sage publications
Contents |
[edit] The journal welcomes contributions on
- Global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change
- The individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media
- Contemporary as well as historical developments
- Implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change
- Relationship between theory, policy and practice
[edit] Multidisciplinary perspective
New Media & Society publishes from both the social sciences and the humanities and includes contributions from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as from sociology, geography, anthropology, economics and from the political and information sciences.
Topics covered include (but are not limited to):
- Digitalization and convergence
- Interactivity and virtuality
- Consumption and citizenship
- Innovation, regulation and control
- The cultures of the Internet
- Patterns and inequalities of use
- Community and identity in electronic space
- Time and space in global culture and everyday life
- The politics of cyberspace
[edit] Editors
Steve Jones is professor and head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author/editor of numerous books, including Doing Internet Research, The Encyclopedia of New Media, CyberSociety, and Virtual Culture. He is co-founder and president of the Association of Internet Researchers and co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture. He also edits New Media Cultures, a series of books on culture and technology for Sage Publications, and Digital Formations, a series of books on new media for Peter Lang Publishers.
Nicholas Jankowski (no information available)
