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A History of Digital Media Gabriele Balbi

A History of Digital Media By Gabriele Balbi

A History of Digital Media by Gabriele Balbi

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Taking a historical, intermedial, and global approach, A History of Digital Media provides readers with a clear, in-depth overview of the main turning points and debates in the history of digital media including the emergence of computers, the Internet, and mobile media.

A History of Digital Media Summary

A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective by Gabriele Balbi

From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital media and highlighting the interactions between political, business, technical, social, and cultural elements throughout history. With a global scope and an intermedia focus, this book enables students and scholars alike to deepen their critical understanding of digital communication, adding an understudied historical layer to the examination of digital media and societies. Discussion questions, a timeline, and previously unpublished tables and maps are included to guide readers as they learn to contextualize and critically analyze the digital technologies we use every day.

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"A History of Digital Media is the go-to text for a compact overview of how our current communication universe came about. Spiced with sidebars and teaching helps, the book offers a gently revisionist account that places the telephone alongside the computer as a vector of innovation. Informed both by primary historical sources and classic theoretical insights, this easily readable volume will prove an essential resource to scholars and students sure to be fascinated by how the digital, while ever-pressing on the present, is in fact anything but new." -John Durham Peters, Yale University and Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa

"An original, theoretically sophisticated and historically informed work about the digitization of media and communication. Gabriele Balbi and Paolo Magauddas pioneering book advances our understanding of the myths and mechanisms associated with the processes of digitization. Highly recommended." -Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, London

"A History of Digital Media is a first-rate introductory text that is as delightful to read as it is informative and instructive. It tells a complicated, global story in disarmingly charming and unhurried prose. Its long-range historical synthesis is rich but not labored, and can only be the fruit of meticulous research and deep theoretical thinking. Highly recommended to beginners and experts alike." -Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania

About Gabriele Balbi

Gabriele Balbi is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at USI Universita della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), where he is Director of the China Media Observatory and teaches media history and sociology at the Faculty of Communication Sciences. His main areas of interest are media history and historiography of communication.

Paolo Magaudda is Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Padova (Italy) where his research is in technology, culture, and society with particular reference to media and consumption processes. Since 2013, he has been Secretary of STS Italia, the Italian Society for the Study of Science and Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Why Study the History of Digital Media and How?

1.1. Contextualizing Digital in Contemporary Societies

1.2. Theoretical Paths

1.3. A Few of the Benefits of a Digital Media History

Chapter 2 The Computer

2.1. The "Mother" of All Digital Devices

2.2. The Mechanical Computer Age and the Social Need for Calculation

2.3. The Birth of the Computer and the Mainframe Age

2.4. The Age of Personal Computers

2.5. The post-PC Age from a Global Perspective

Chapter 3 Internet

3.1. What We Mean by the Internet

3.2. The Military Influence

3.3. The Academic Influence

3.4 The Counter-cultural Influence

3.5. The Public Service Influence

3.6. The Commercial Influence

3.7. The Social Influence

3.8. Re-reading the Internet in Historical Perspective

Chapter 4 The Mobile Phone

4.1. The Origins of the Mobile Phone

4.2. Digital Rebirth and Growing up

4.3. The European Digital-Bureaucratic Miracle

4.4. The Power of Routine. A Concise History of Text Messaging

4.5. A New Mobile Phone Paradigm: 3G, Smartphones and Mobile Internet

4.6. The Global Mobile Phone Fever

4.7. Sociocultural Implications of Mobile Connectivity

Chapter 5 The Digitization of Analog Media

5.1. Intermediality and the Digital Media Pattern

5.2. Music

5.3. Publishing: Books and Newsmaking

5.4. Cinema and Video

5.5. Photography

5.6. Television

5.7. Radio

5.8. Digitization and the Interweaving of Different Media

Conclusion

Myths and Counter-hegemonic Narratives in the History of Digitization

Chronology

Appendix: Statistical and Quantitative Data

Acronyms

Additional information

NPB9781138630222
9781138630222
1138630225
A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective by Gabriele Balbi
Gabriele Balbi
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-04-20
282
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