The New Media and Technocultures Reader

The study of new media has developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms and has generated a great deal of excitement, hype and confusion. The New Media and Technocultures Reader gathers texts which map the cultural implications of new media, encapsulating and challenging key debates, theoretical positions and approaches to research.

The New Media and Technocultures Reader offers students further reading on and exploration of key issues and topics raised in the textbook New Media: A Critical introduction. The Reader draws on various disciplinary stances [including visual culture; media and cultural history; media theory; media production; philosophy and the history of the sciences; political economy and sociology], offering readers a rich and interdisciplinary resource. Critical and accessible editorial commentary guides the reader between the extracts and through the debates.