Digital futures for cultural and media studies /

• Main Author: Hartley, John, 1948-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Subjects: Digital media > Social aspects.; Mass media.; Social media.; Social Science.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.; Electronic books.

An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to itInvestigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate so...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; 1 The History and Future of Ideas; Part I: Reading Digits; Part II: A Short History of Representation
• From Print to User; 4 The Distribution of Public Thought; 'Public Thought' and Shirky's Shock; Average Collapse; Journalistic Collapse; Academic Collapse; Keening at a Wake; Sequence of Collapse; Every Time You Torrent; An Invisible College
• At the Airport; Signaling the Quality of Public Thought; Digital Literacy: 'Look at Moi!'; Trust Me, I'm a Doctor?; Outlearning; 2 Cultural Studies, Creative Industries, and Cultural Science.
• Why is Cultural Studies not an Evolutionary Science?Part I: Past
• Cultural Studies; Part II: Present
• Creative Industries; Part III: Future
• Cultural Science; 3 Journalism and Popular Culture; Part I: Popular Culture
• Subject or Object?; Part II: Methodological Considerations; 5 Television Goes Online; Cultural Climate Change; 'That Sign Needs Changing'; Less Popular?; More Democratic?; From Coronation Street to Corrie; More Democratic ... and Sillier?; What Say You?; Implications for Media Studies; 6 Silly Citizenship; Citizenship: Child's Play?; History or Science?; The 'Good Citizen'
• Evolving CitizenshipCultural Citizenship; Media Citizenship; Productive Citizens; Silly Citizenship; Discursive Citizenship in the Era of New Media; Ordinary Publics, New Media, and Cultural Citizenship; Arty-Farty Citizenship?; 7 The Probability Archive; Institutions of Memory; From Objectivity to Quantum Theory; Modernity's Essence Archive; Broadcast Television as Essence Archive; The Probability Archive; Plenitude of the Sign; The Internet as a Probability Machine (Or, How to 'Cast' the First Stone); Amazingly Unlikely; The Veblen Question; The Olduvai Imperative; 8 Messaging as Identity.
• Message
• What Message?Part I: Interdisciplinary Encounters; Part II: Madness, or Method?; Part III: Evolution of Homo Nuntius; Part IV: Fashion as 'the Message' of Homo Nuntius; Trickster the Entrepreneur; Cultural Science: System, Agency, Disruption, Change; New Firms; The 'A' Word; Distributed Talent; Lying Worm and Cry Baby; Structural Change; Bridging Culture and Science; 9 Paradigm Shifters; References; Acknowledgments; Index.