Cutting-edge student exploration of what it means to live in a digital society. Introduces key concepts and research essential for digital media, social media and media/data and society modules.

An introduction to both the scope and potential of researching digital media and society and to the use and application of a range of popular methods for doing research.

Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, the economy and social practices.

The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this sociological introduction to the field of digital technologies is intended to enable a deeper understanding of their prominent role in everyday life. The fundamental theoretical and ethical debates on the sociology of the digital media are presented in accessible summaries, ranging from economy and technology to criminology and sexuality. Key theoretical paradigms are explored through a broad range of contemporary social phenomena – from social networking and virtual lives to the rise of cybercrime and identity theft, from the utopian ideals of virtual democracy to the Orwellian nightmare of the surveillance society, from the free software movement to the implications of online shopping. As an entry-level pathway for students in sociology, media, communications and cultural studies, the aim of this work is to situate the rise of digital media within the context of a complex and rapidly changing world.

CHAPTER-1 The first chapter talks about the foundation concepts of technology, media, society and culture. It highlights the role of technology and media in society and culture and brings out the role these two play in shaping society and culture. This chapter defines the relevance of the study and elaborates the context in the proceeding chapters with examples and case studies. CHAPTER-2 This chapter talks about the artifacts of ICT and New media. It elaborates the notion of ICT and new media by talking about the various artifacts of ICT and their attributes. It further explains, how these attributes and features are useful and are making an impact on society and culture. The chapter also discusses the role of new media, its coverage, and its influence together with technology. CHAPTER-3 This is the core chapter that discusses the Impact of ICT and New Media on society and culture. This chapter has taken the real cases around the world to bring out the impact that ICT and New media have created in society and culture. This chapter has many important and vital cases like the Orange revolution of Burma or the Zhejiang University Girl and Professor debate that became viral on the internet and were able to highlight the power of ICT technologies and Knew media. This chapter also shows how and in what ways the current technologies are transforming society and culture. CHAPTER-4 This chapter illustrates ICT systems as complex systems and discusses the properties of a complex system. It further explains the complexities of a software system and the properties that make these systems so complex. This chapter also elaborates on the risks and liabilities associated with complex software systems. Some well-known cases are discussed at the end of the chapter to illustrate the impact of ICT and new media on individuals, business firms, and social structures. CHAPTER-5 The last chapter concludes the overall study and provides the readers a complete summary of the chapters in relation to the development, use and impact of ICT and New media.

This book offers a comprehensive new analysis of the contemporary media landscape, looking at the central theories of the digital society, and the hot topics and key research methods in the field.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media Economics, Media Management, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, language: English, abstract: The invention of social media had one of the biggest impacts on how people live today. Not only communication has changed, even more it influences the whole perception and creation of reality. Throughout history, developments in communication and technology have gone collateral. Technological advances, such as the internet, social media and mobile devices, have changed human behavior and communication. Back in 1980, Toffler describes in his book "The third wave" how society had progressed through three historic waves. The first one started from a hunter-gatherer structure to transform to an agriculture society. Second, the industrial age with its technological advances, starting to provide mass distribution of consumption, media, education and entertainment. The third wave is the so called "Information Age", when knowledge began to become more valuable over material items, and it has just begun. New inventions, like virtual reality, voice recognition, and connected mobility are going to permeate society in the future. Entrepreneurs need to make use of these trends to thrive in an omni-connected, always-online and non-real world. The online marketing, digital branding and social media communication strategy represented in this paper, is created for a car brand. In this essay, the company BMW is going to be used as a substitute, to show how the strategy can be adapted to a specific brand.

We are living in an era in which hate has become a national value. Hatred against the other is now an endemic and unforgiving aspect of our culture. Law, Media, and Culture examines how the law defines and reacts to hate, how the media reinforces it, and how hate is manifested in popular culture. This book also takes a fresh look at how the Internet has become a major tool to communicate hate, and how the development of attitudes toward hate are shaped by gender.