ATG Book of the Week: The New Media Invasion: Digital Technologies and the World They Unmake

Title: The New Media Invasion: Digital Technologies and the World They Unmake

Author: John David Ebert

ISBN: Softcover: 978-0-7864-6560-6; Ebook  978-0-7864-8818-6
Price: Softcover & ebook : $40
Imprint: Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011

“This study explores how Internet entities like Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google, and gadgets such as digital cameras, cell phones, video games, robots, drones, and all things MacIntosh have affected everything from the book industry and copyright law to how we conduct social relationships and consider knowledge. Including a chronology of significant events in the history of the digital explosion, this investigation of the often overlooked “shadow” side of new technology chronicles life during a radical societal shift and follows the process whereby one world disintegrates while another takes its place.”

Click on The New Media Invasion, an Interview with John David Ebert … for a video discussion of the book.  And here is the Wikipedia entry on the author that discusses the New Media Invasion as well as his other titles.