New Media Book; Editor: Harries, Dan; Paperback

Editor: Harries, Dan
Paperback; Colour Illustrations
272 pages
Published: September 2002
British Film Institute
ISBN: 0851709257

New media has become a catchword describing the digital delivery of media via the Internet, DVD, and digital television. It is also a reference to the changes such technologies have brought to media more generally. And yet the nature of the transformation from old to new media has been over-hyped and little understood. The New Media Book features twenty accessibly written, newly commissioned, provocative essays designed to be used in a range of courses, providing a critical framework for understanding the field of moving image studies.The book is divided into five section: Technologies, Production, Texts, Consumption, and Contexts. Throughout the essays ask how new media is both embracing and altering the existing media landscape; consider the changing methodsProviding an accessible, critical intervention into the field of moving image studies, this book features 20 commissioned essays in a format designed to be of wide use to a range of course in digital media, film and television studies.