A Companion to New Media Dynamics presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cultural underpinnings of the media of the digital age in terms of dynamic change* Presents a state-of-the-art collection of original readings relating to new media in terms of dynamic change* Features interdisciplinary contributions encompassing the sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts* Addresses a wide range of issues from the ownership and regulation of new media to their form and cultural uses* Provides readers with a glimpse of new media dynamics at three levels of scale: the 'macro' or system level; the 'meso' or institutional level; and 'micro' or agency level

Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xixIntroducing Dynamics: A New Approach to ''New Media'' 1John Hartley, Jean Burgess, and Axel BrunsPart 1 Approaches and Antecedents 131 Media Studies and New Media Studies 15Sean Cubitt2 The Future of Digital Humanities is a Matter of Words 33Willard McCarty3 Media Dynamics and the Lessons of History 53Thomas Pettitt4 Literature and Culture in the Age of the New Media 73Peter Swirski5 The Economics of New Media 90John Quiggin6 The End of Audiences? 104Sonia Livingstone and Ranjana Das7 The Emergence of Next-Generation Internet Users 122Grant Blank and William H. Dutton8 National Web Studies 142Richard Rogers, Esther Weltevrede, Erik Borra, and Sabine NiedererPart 2 Issues and Identities 167Agency 1699 In the Habitus of the New 171Zizi Papacharissi and Emily Easton10 Long Live Wikipedia? 185Andrew LihMobility 19111 Changing Media with Mobiles 193Gerard Goggin12 Make Room for the Wii 209Ben AslingerEnterprise 21913 Improvers, Entertainers, Shockers, and Makers 221Charles Leadbeater14 The Dynamics of Digital Multisided Media Markets 231Patrik Wikstr¿omSearch 24715 Search and Networked Attention 249Alexander Halavais16 Against Search 261Pelle SnickarsNetwork 27517 Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mobile Web 277Indrek Ibrus18 Pseudonyms and the Rise of the Real-Name Web 290Bernie HoganSurveillance 30919 New Media and Changing Perceptions of Surveillance 311Anders Albrechtslund20 Lessons of the Leak 322Christoph BieberPart 3 Forms, Platforms, and Practices 337Culture and Identity 33921 Cybersexuality and Online Culture 341Feona Attwood22 Microcelebrity and the Branded Self 346Theresa M. Senft23 Online Identity 355Alice E. Marwick24 Practices of Networked Identity 365Jan-Hinrik SchmidtPolitics, Participation, and Citizenship 37525 The Internet and the Opening Up of Political Space 377Stephen Coleman26 The Internet as a Platform for Civil Disobedience 385Cherian George27 Parody, Performativity, and Play 396Jeffrey P. Jones28 The Politics of ''Platforms'' 407Tarleton Gillespie29 From Homepages to Network Profiles 417Axel BrunsKnowledge and New Generations 42730 The New Media Toolkit 429Mark Pesce31 Materiality, Description, and Comparison as Tools for Cultural Difference Analysis 439Basile Zimmermann32 Learning from Network Dysfunctionality 450Tony D. Sampson and Jussi Parikka33 Young People Online 461Lelia Green and Danielle Brady34 Beyond Generations and New Media 472Kate Crawford and Penelope RobinsonIndex 480