The new media invasion : digital technologies and the world they unmake / John David Ebert.

"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 relatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ebert, John David, 1968-
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Inc., [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:	Information technology > Social aspects. Digital media > Social aspects. Internet > Social aspects. Technology and civilization. Civilization, Modern > 21st century.
Physical Description:	xi, 219 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Amazon.com, the Kindle, and the collapse of the book industry
YouTube and the twilight of copyright
On Facebook we're all being flattened together
Wikipedia, or, The catastrophe of knowledge
WikiLeaks and the death of culture
On the metaphysics of Google Earth
The mythology and metaphysics of the Macintosh
Digital photography and the end of the visionary image
How cell phones disrupt the flows
The killing eye : video games, surrogate violence, and the dismantling of social machines
Robots, drones, and the disappearance of the human being
A few words on the Ovei Pod and the end of history.