{"product_id":"9781847874962","title":"Understanding Digital Culture","description":"This is more than just another book on Internet studies. Tracing the pervasive influence of 'digital culture' throughout contemporary life, this text integrates socio-economic understandings of the 'information society' with the cultural studies approach to production, use, and consumption of digital media and multimedia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefreshingly readable and packed with examples from profiling databases and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emashups to cybersex and the truth about social networking, \u003cb\u003eUnderstanding Digital Culture\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• crosses disciplines to give a balanced account of the social, economic and cultural dimensions of the information society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• illuminates the increasing importance of mobile, wireless and converged media technologies in everyday life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• unpacks how the information society is transforming and challenging traditional notions of crime, resistance, war and protest, community, intimacy and belonging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• charts the changing cultural forms associated with new media and its consumption, including music, gaming, microblogging and online identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• illustrates the above through a series of contemporary, in-depth case studies of digital culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the perfect text for students looking for a full account of the information society, virtual cultures, sociology of the Internet and new media.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050011508976,"sku":"9781847874962","price":97.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847874962","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}