Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introducing Dynamics: A New Approach to ``New Media'' -- What's New . . . ? -- . . . about New Media? -- The Dynamics of the Book -- Part 1 Approaches and Antecedents -- Chapter 1 Media Studies and New Media Studies -- History and Geography -- Political Aesthetics -- The Study of New Media Practice -- Chapter 2 The Future of Digital Humanities Is a Matter of Words -- Prologue -- Projecting the Future -- Writing the History -- Destinations Evolve -- Destination is Resonance -- Watchfulness -- Chapter 3 Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History -- Present and Past: Juxtapositions -- Restorations: Media Technology -- Restorations: Beyond Technology -- Chapter 4 Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media -- The Book Culture -- The Highbrow Margins -- The New Old Media -- The Evolutionary Story -- Nobrow, Evolist, and Beyond -- Chapter 5 The Economics of New Media -- What Can Economics Tell Us about New Media? -- Information as a Public Good -- What does an Information Economy Mean for Economics? -- Policy Implications -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter 6 The End of Audiences? -- The Death of the Audience? -- A Crossgenerational Dialogue -- Conceptual Continuities -- The Short History and Long Past of Audiences -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Emergence of Next-Generation Internet Users -- Introduction -- Approach -- The Emergence of Next-Generation Users -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Defining the Next-Generation User -- Why Does this Matter? -- Who are the Next-Generation Users? -- Beyond Britain: The World Internet Project -- The Future -- Chapter 8 National Web Studies -- Introduction: National Web Studies -- Blocked yet Blogging: The Special Case of Iran -- Defining National Websites, and the Implications for National Web Capture.

Demarcating the Iranian Web: Studying the Outputs of Device Cultures -- Device Cultures: How Websites are Valued, and Ranked -- Analyzing the Characteristics of the Iranian Webs: Language and Responsiveness -- The Iranian Web and Its Languages -- The Iranian Web and Responsiveness -- The Iranian Web and Internet Censorship -- The Iranian Web and Freshness -- Conclusion: National Web Health Index -- Acknowledgments -- Part 2 Issues and Identities -- Agency -- Chapter 9 In the Habitus of the New -- Habitus, Agency, and Structure -- Structure and Agency in the Habitus of the New -- Affordances and the Habitus -- (Authorship and) Disclosure -- Listening -- Redaction -- Digital Literacy as Agency -- Chapter 10 Long Live Wikipedia? -- Mobility -- Chapter 11 Changing Media with Mobiles -- Introduction: The Emergence of Moving Media -- The Mobile Phone as a Medium -- From Personal to Social Television -- The Second Coming of Mobile Internet -- Placing Media with Mobiles -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Make Room for the Wii -- Locating the Game Console -- Limited Spatial Mobilities -- Conclusion: Too Many Mobilities to Count? -- Enterprise -- Chapter 13 Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers, and Makers -- Chapter 14 The Dynamics of Digital Multisided Media Markets -- Introduction -- Two-Sided Media Markets -- Digital Technologies Change the Dynamics of Multisided Media Markets -- Amateur Developers in the IT Industries -- IT Industry Practices for Engaging with an Active Audience -- Media Organizations that Learn from the IT Industries -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Search -- Chapter 15 Search and Networked Attention -- Paying Attention -- Media of Attention -- Networked Distraction -- The New Gatekeepers -- Search Engine Thinking -- After Search Engines -- Chapter 16 Against Search -- New Modalities of Access -- More Data is Better Data.

Conclusion: The Politics of Data -- Network -- Chapter 17 Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mobile Web -- Introduction -- Conceptualization: Evolutionary Dynamics of Media -- Networks of the Mobile Web and Their Evolution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18 Pseudonyms and the Rise of the Real-Name Web -- Introduction -- A Clash of Ideals -- Pseudonyms in History -- Functional Motivations -- Situational Motivations: Moving to Another Room -- Personal Motivations: Putting on a Costum -- Why So Many Names? -- The Real-Name Web -- Life Off the Screen -- The Nymwars -- Human Flesh Search -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Surveillance -- Chapter 19 New Media and Changing Perceptions of Surveillance -- Introduction -- Media as a Surveillance Practice -- Privacy and Transparency -- Conclusion -- Chapter 20 Lessons of the Leak -- Journalism or Terrorism -What actually is WikiLeaks? -- The Economy of the Leak -- Why Change? Politics Versus the ''Transparency Movement'' -- Transparency, WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange -- Acknowledgments -- Part 3 Forms, Platforms, and Practices -- Culture and Identity -- Chapter 21 Cybersexuality and Online Culture -- Chapter 22 Microcelebrity and the Branded Self -- Introduction: Identity Crisis -- Online Identity: Media, Naming, Doing -- The Internet as Marketplace -- Users as Sellers, Buyers, Goods -- The Branded Self Online: The Paradox of Late Capitalism -- From Subculture Stars to Microcelebrity Practices -- Immaterial Labor and the ''Attention'' Economy -- The Super-public and the Rise of Strange Familiarity -- Chapter 23 Online Identity -- Introduction -- Theories of Identity -- Social Media and Online Identity -- Identity Construction -- Identity and Difference -- Context Collapse and Privacy -- Authenticity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 24 Practices of Networked Identity -- Introduction -- Basic Concepts of Identity.

Characteristics of Networked Identity -- Practices of Networked Identity -- Drawing Boundaries: Self-disclosure and Privacy -- Conclusion -- Politics, Participation, and Citizenship -- Chapter 25 The Internet and the Opening Up of Political Space -- Opening Up and Closing Down -- The Internet and Democratic Opportunities -- Fixing a Broken Relationship -- Forms of Digital Citizenship -- Chapter 26 The Internet as a Platform for Civil Disobedience -- Hegemony and Censorship -- The Singapore Context -- Alternative Online Media -- Chapter 27 Parody, Performativity, and Play -- Dynamics of Change in Mediated Citizenship -- Performativity and Play -- Silly Citizenship within New Media Dynamics -- Chapter 28 The Politics of ``Platforms'' -- ''Platform'' -- Users, Advertisers, Clients -- Edges -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 29 From Homepages to Network Profiles -- Phase 1: The First Homepages -- Phase 2: Attempts at Organizing the Web -- Phase 3: Dreamweaver and the Return to Individualism -- Phase 4: Blogs and the Shift toward Web 2.0 -- Phase 5: Social Networking - You Are What You Tweet -- Future Developments in the Personal/Social Dynamic -- Knowledge and New Generations -- Chapter 30 The New Media Toolkit -- Introduction: The Age of Connection -- Hyperconnectivity -- Hyperdistribution -- Hyperintelligence -- Hyperempowerment -- Dissecting Hyperempowerment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 31 Materiality, Description, and Comparison as Tools for Cultural Difference Analysis -- The Circulation of Cultural Waves -- Describing the Chinese Internet -- The Materiality of Culture -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 32 Learning from Network Dysfunctionality -- Defining Dysfunctionality -- Modeling Dysfunctionality -- Network Dysfunctionality as Biopolitical Theory -- Chapter 33 Young People Online -- Introduction.

New Media and New Ways of Interacting -- Concerns around Children's Online Activities -- EU Kids Online II: Design -- EU Kids Online: Findings -- Conclusions -- Chapter 34 Beyond Generations and New Media -- Old and New Media Generations -- Inventing Digital Natives -- From Generations to Networks of Association -- Conclusion -- Index.