Web. Studies: Rewiring Media Studies For The Digital Age; Editor: Gauntlett, David; Hardcover

Editor: Gauntlett, David
Hardcover
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0340760486
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This exciting and engaging book explores the ways in which people, organizations, and companies are using the Internet to project their interests and concerns into the world. Beginning withan introduction to cyberculture studies and ways to studying the web, Web.Studies moves on to consider everyday web life, web art and culture, web business, and global web poetics and protest. Topicscovered range from fan websites, web identities, and web design trends, to global capitalism and web allure, cybercrime and the poetics of hacking and propaganda warfare via the web. Throughout the book are suggestions for ways in which students can use the web to further their own research. While there has been an explosion of books on the Internet, this is the first to offer students and general