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Digital world: connectivity, creativity and rights

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge Research in Political CommunicationPublication details: London Routledge 2014Description: xii, 191 pISBN:
  • 9781138909427
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833 D4
Summary: he Internet and digital technologies have changed the world we live in and the ways we engage with one another and work and play. This is the starting point for this collection which takes analysis of the digital world to the next level exploring the frontiers of digital and creative transformations and mapping their future directions. It brings together a distinctive collection of leading academics, social innovators, activists, policy specialists and digital and creative practitioners to discuss and address the challenges and opportunities in the contemporary digital and creative economy. Contributions explain the workings of the digital world through three main themes: connectivity, creativity and rights. They combine theoretical and conceptual discussions with real world examples of new technologies and technological and creative processes and their impacts. Discussions range across political, economic and cultural areas and assess national contexts including the UK and China. Areas covered include digital identity and empowerment, the Internet and the ‘Fifth Estate’, social media and the Arab Spring, digital storytelling, transmedia and audience, economic and social innovation, digital inclusion, community and online curation, cyberqueer activism. The volume developed out of a UK Economic and Social Research Council funded research seminar series. (https://www.routledge.com/Digital-World-Connectivity-Creativity-and-Rights/Youngs/p/book/9781138909427)
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Table of Contents:

Part I: Connectivity
1. Innovation challenges in the digital
2. Politics of digital development: informatization and governance in China
3. Digital inclusion: a case for micro perspectives
4. Social innovation and digital community curation

Part II: Creativity
5. Creativity and digital innovation
6. Digital story and the new creativity
7. Photography’s transformation in the digital age: artistic and everyday forms
8. Transmedia storytelling and audience: memory and market

Part III: Rights
9. The Fifth Estate of the digital world
10. Economic innovations and political empowerment
11. A cyberconflict analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring
12. Cyberqueer perspectives on rights and activism

he Internet and digital technologies have changed the world we live in and the ways we engage with one another and work and play. This is the starting point for this collection which takes analysis of the digital world to the next level exploring the frontiers of digital and creative transformations and mapping their future directions. It brings together a distinctive collection of leading academics, social innovators, activists, policy specialists and digital and creative practitioners to discuss and address the challenges and opportunities in the contemporary digital and creative economy.

Contributions explain the workings of the digital world through three main themes: connectivity, creativity and rights. They combine theoretical and conceptual discussions with real world examples of new technologies and technological and creative processes and their impacts. Discussions range across political, economic and cultural areas and assess national contexts including the UK and China. Areas covered include digital identity and empowerment, the Internet and the ‘Fifth Estate’, social media and the Arab Spring, digital storytelling, transmedia and audience, economic and social innovation, digital inclusion, community and online curation, cyberqueer activism. The volume developed out of a UK Economic and Social Research Council funded research seminar series.

(https://www.routledge.com/Digital-World-Connectivity-Creativity-and-Rights/Youngs/p/book/9781138909427)

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