Communication and Technology

This volume contains 30 chapters on communication and technology, focusing on semiotic codes and technologies and their changes and innovations in newspaper wire services, telecommunication networks, cinema, music, video games, hypermedia and the internet, virtual reality, social networks, and Web 2.0 and 3.0, as well as models to interpret them; communication technologies and their environment, including user experience and usability, information quality, the digital divide, the social impact of mobile technologies, legal and ethical issues, the impact of new media on the old, digital natives, and research methods on the internet; and communication technologies and new practices in commerce, the workplace, marketing and public relations, government, terrorism, religion, learning, health, tourism, journalism, libraries, and science. Contributors are communications, media studies, and other scholars from Europe, the US, Australia, and Singapore. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Lorenzo Cantoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland;James A. Danowski, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.