Internet Communication
eBook - PDF

Internet Communication

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Internet Communication

About this book

This textbook examines the Internet as a communication system – the single most pervasive, involving, and global communication system ever created by human beings, with a host of political, economic, cognitive, and sociocultural implications. The Internet crosses all cultural boundaries and is the fastest growing global communication system ever witnessed. The text explores the ways in which the technology of the Internet, beyond its specific content, possesses its own message-generating capabilities that dramatically and decisively affect its users. Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. The concepts, processes, functions, and outcomes of the Internet as a global communication technology are used as a way of testing the validity and reliability of media theories, and media theories are used as a way of identifying the powers and limitations of the Internet as a communication system. An overview of the Internet's past and anticipated future is provided

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Yes, you can access Internet Communication by James W. Chesebro, David T. McMahan, Preston C. Russett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias sociales & Estudios de comunicación. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. 1 Power and Meanings of the Internet as a Communication System
  5. 2 Traditional Media and the Rise of Digital Communication Technologies
  6. 3 The Past—The Development and Evolution of Digital Technologies
  7. 4 The Future—Predicting the Future of the Digital Revolution
  8. 5 Can or Should a Purpose Be Attributed to Digital Technologies Such as the Internet?
  9. 6 Business of the Internet: Marketing
  10. 7 Internet as a Knowledge and Information Generating System
  11. 8 Social Networking Sites
  12. 9 Connecting on the Internet: Pornography and Dating
  13. 10 Transcending Space, Time, and Class: Video Sharing, Video Gaming, and Praying Online
  14. 11 The Pragmatics of Communication—The Internet as a Coherent and Complete Societal System
  15. 12 The Internet and United States Politics
  16. 13 Privacy, Transparency, and the Internet in America
  17. 14 International, Corporate, and Radical
  18. 15 The Future of the Internet and Web Reconsidered: Back to the Future With Tim Berners-Lee
  19. References
  20. Index