商品簡介
Citing the information society of the post-industrial world as a domain of irreconcilably clashing paradigms and absurdity, Charles suggests, for openers, that it’s time to change the Internet to the internet, and do the same for the World Wide Web. He describes a paradox: Users are dazzled by media hype regarding interactivity, which creates a deceptive sense of their own active participation in political and social processes, thereby undermining the users’ desires and potential for actual substantive engagements in such processes, i.e., a self-avowedly democratizing agglomeration of media forms effectively counteracts and reverses processes of democratization. There are eight chapters: engines of change; electronic politics; war games; reality television; social networks; public knowledge; the twitterati; revolutions. There is also a bibliography. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Alec Charles is Head of Media at the University of Chester, and has previously taught at universities in Estonia, Japan, Cornwall and Luton. He has made documentaries for BBC Radio, has worked as a print journalist in eastern Europe and has written for British Journalism Review, Journalism Education and Tribune. He is the co-editor of The End of Journalism (2011) and the editor of Media in the Enlarged Europe (2009), Media/Democracy: A Comparative Study (2013) and The End of Journalism Version 2.0 (2014). His recent publications include papers in British Politics, Utopian Studies, Science Fiction Studies and Science Fiction Film & Television, as well as chapters in various books on film, television, literature and new media. He also serves as co-convenor of the Political Studies Association’s Media and Politics Group.
