| Description |
1 online resource (x, 309 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Understanding our digination -- Lost logos: finding the art and argument in McLuhan's message -- Indigenous e-mail: identity construction at the oral/textual interface -- Blogs: the new news medium -- Information, interactivity, and the denizen of digination -- Search engineering and the emerging information ecology -- Portable digital music devices and the sound-tracked lifeworld -- Podcasting and the lifeworld: from sound track to narrative track -- Knitting, napping, and notebook computers (and other mnemotechnical systems) -- Ebay ethics: prefiguring the "digital democracy" -- Media ecology and a biological approach to understanding our digination. |
| Summary |
Digination offers an inter-disciplinary, broad overview of the psychic, social, and institutional effects of some of the most popular digital communication technologies and applications operating today. Written in an engaging style appropriate for non-specialist readers interested in broadening their awareness and enhancing their understanding of popular trends in media use. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects. |
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Digital media -- Social aspects.
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Digital media -- Social aspects. |
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Mass media -- Technological innovations.
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Mass media -- Technological innovations. |
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Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
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Telecommunication -- Social aspects. |
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Information society.
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Information society. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacDougall, Robert C. Digination. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012 9781611474398 (DLC) 2011030833 (OCoLC)742339166 |
| ISBN |
9781611474404 (electronic book) |
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161147440X (electronic book) |
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1611474396 |
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9781611474398 |
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