Product Description: Filling a critical gap in the literature, this much-needed publication is an in-depth analysis of the diverse array of research into adolescents’ virtual lives. It sets young people’s ‘virtual’ behavior in the context of contemporary developmental theory.

Product Description: Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, and other mobile devices...read more

Product Description: Digitale Medientechnologien wie z.B. Mobiltelefonie oder das Internet spielen immer stärker eine zentrale Rolle sowohl für unsere Gesellschaft als auch für unsere Alltagswelt. Dabei sind sie keineswegs allein Voraussetzung kommunikativer und medialer Prozesse, sondern sind auf das Engste mit kulturellen und sozialen Kontexten verbunden...read more

Product Description: We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all? Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a renowned Stanford technology guru, says yes...read more

A tale of a young woman during the early nineteenth century chronicles how she falls in love with the mysterious Darius Elder, the man responsible for the court-martial of her father and the ruin of her family.

Product Description: From the acclaimed and respected National League of Cotillions comes advice for how to add courtesy and manners in today’s electronic society.Cell phones, email, social networks, and instant connections have challenged the civility of millions...read more

Product Description: The fresh and insightful guide to etiquette in a digital world from the Emily Post Institute, Inc., the definitive standard-bearer of good manners For generations of Americans, the Emily Post Institute is the authoritative source on how to behave with confidence and tact...read more

Product Description: This Worktext Advantage version of Entre Amis, 5th edition includes the complete front matter and back matter plus Textbook Modules 8-14 PLUS SAM/Video Manual Modules 8-14 in one convenient paperbound volume.

The second volume in this series revolving around the inhabitants of an English country village. Molly Parminter continues to do battle with her large and ungrateful house, The Hall. Hector's hobby - ballooning - doesn't make things easier, and an OAP drugs ring is smashed by PC Lay.

Product Description: The second volume in this series revolving around the inhabitants of an English country village. Molly Parminter continues to do battle with her large and ungrateful house, The Hall. Hector's hobby - ballooning - doesn't make things easier, and an OAP drugs ring is smashed by PC Lay...read more

Product Description: Two years is a long time in the world of new media – a world of phubbing and selfies, of cyberbullying and neknomination, of bitcoins, Prism surveillance and Google Glass. Much has occurred since the first edition of this book: from the extraordinary social media responses to the deaths of Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and Peaches Geldof, to the Twitterstorms occasioned by allegations against a late peer of the realm, the rise of the UK Independence Party and the popularity of The Great British Bake Off...read more

Product Description: Digital technologies have transformed cultural perceptions of learning and what it means to be literate, expanding the importance of experience alongside interpretation and reflection. Learning the Virtual Life offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational environments, as well as the cultural transformations of how we now define learning and literacy...read more

In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated--subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation--all-encompassing and indivisible--becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a "cut" to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of "doing" media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.

Product Description: What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies...read more

Product Description: With clear analysis and practical frameworks, this book provides step-by-step guidance businesses can use to prosper in the new era of digital media "An incredibly useful and valuable guidebook to the new consumer economy. Buy it...read more