This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, existing social institutions, and the society at large at various levels of analysis. Macro-level analyses of changing techno-social formation such as discussions of the rise of surveillance society and the "fifth estate" are combined with studies on concrete and specific new media phenomena, such as the rise of Pro-Am collaboration and "fan labor" online. In the process, prominent concepts in the field of new media studies, such as social capital, displacement, and convergence, are critically examined, while new theoretical perspectives are proposed and explicated. Reflecting the inter-disciplinary nature of the field of new media studies and communication research in general, the chapters interrogate into the problematic through a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The book should offer students and researchers who are interested in the social impact of new media both critical reviews of the existing literature and inspirations for developing new research questions.
Preface Ronald E. Rice
1. Introduction: Challenges for New Media
Research Francis L. F. Lee, Louis Leung, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Donna S. C.
Chu Part I: Techno-Social Formations
2. Whats the Use of the Public Sphere
in the Age of the Internet? Frank Webster
3. The Internet and Democratic
Accountability: The Rise of the Fifth Estate William H. Dutton
4.
Surveillance Technologies and Social Transformation: Emerging Challenges of
Socio-Technical Change David Lyon
5. The Probability Archive: From Essence to
Uncertainty in the Mediation of Knowledge John Hartley
6. The Internet and
Social Mobilization in China Yong Hu Part II: Recurring Issues
7. Online
Social Network Sites and the Concept of Social Capital Charles Steinfield,
Nicole Ellison, Cliff Lampe and Jessica Vitak
8. A Retrospective on
Convergence, Moral Panic, and the Internet Sharon Strover
9. The Emerging
Ecology of Online News Stuart Allan
10. Who Would Miss Getting News Online
and Why (Not)? Hsiang Iris Chyi and Mengchieh Jacie Yang
11. The Influence of
Third-Person Effects on Support for Restrictions of Internet Pornography
Among College Students in Shanghai and Hong Ven-hwei Lo, Ran Wei, Clement Y.
K. So and Zhang Guoliang Part III: Emerging Media
12. A Networked Self:
Identity Performance and Sociability on Social Network Sites Zizi
Papacharissi
13. The Internet in Flux: Twitter and the Interpretative
Flexibility of Microblogging José van Dijck
14. Exploring the Pro-Am
Interface between Production and Produsage Axel Bruns
15. Fanatical Labor and
Serious Leisure: A Case of Fansubbing in China Donna S.C. Chu
16. From TV to
Online to Mobile Phones: A National Study of U.S. College Students
Multiplatform Video Use and Satisfaction Louisa Ha, Dominik Leconte, and
Jennifer Savidge
Francis L.F. Lee is associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Louis Leung is Professor of Journalism & Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and was Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Jack L. Qiu is associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Donna S.C. Chu is assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
