The new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, that we are able to underst

Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his predictions that the Interne

This book is about technological change within human communication and the media. However, it is not technical but an overview and evaluation of new communicati

From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Auto Theft to Second Life, this book explores media's important issues and debates. It covers

A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media. Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new