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Understanding Digital Culture
Second Edition
- Vincent Miller - University of Kent, UK
March 2020 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This is not simply a book about ‘internet studies’.
It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few) in order to explore how digital technology - in a broad sense - is used within the wider contexts of our everyday lives.
"The first edition of Understanding Digital Culture set a new benchmark as the most comprehensive, scholarly and accessible introduction to the area. This latest edition, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, is even better – a perfectly balanced book that combines theory and empirical analysis to illuminate the cutting-edge of cultural and social change."
- Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University
It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few) in order to explore how digital technology - in a broad sense - is used within the wider contexts of our everyday lives.
"The first edition of Understanding Digital Culture set a new benchmark as the most comprehensive, scholarly and accessible introduction to the area. This latest edition, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, is even better – a perfectly balanced book that combines theory and empirical analysis to illuminate the cutting-edge of cultural and social change."
- Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University
Introduction
Chapter 1: Key Elements of Digital Media
Chapter 2: The Economic Foundations of the Information Age
Chapter 3: Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience
Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life
Chapter 5: Information Politics and the Online Public Sphere
Chapter 6: Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism and Cyberware
Chapter 7: Digital Identity
Chapter 8: Digital Community? Space, Networks and Relationships
Chapter 9: The Body and Information Technology
Conclusion: Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure (Revisited)
I have used this book for a course on digital culture (bachelor’s degree). The author provides a wide list of references to literature in the field and have made a beautiful overview of literature, history, and various perspectives. I think it’s a very nice piece of work, which contextualizing a lot of contemporary issues related to digital media, social media, ICT, artificial intelligence. There you can find short introductions to most important theories on digital culture as well.
Library Science, Vilnius University
June 3, 2020
