Digination : identity, organization, and public life in the age of small digital devices and big digital domains /
by Robert C. MacDougall.
- 1st ed.
- Madison [N.J.] : Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.
- x, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
- The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding our digination -- Lost logos: finding the art and argument in McLuhan`s message -- Indigenous e-mail: identity construction at the oral/textual interface -- Blogs: the new news medium -- Information, interactivity, and the denizen of digination -- Search engineering and the emerging information ecology -- Portable digital music devices and the sound-tracked lifeworld -- Podcasting and the lifeworld: from sound track to narrative track -- Knitting, napping, and notebook computers (and other mnemotechnical systems) -- Ebay ethics: prefiguring the "digital democracy" -- Media ecology and a biological approach to understanding our digination.
9781611474398 (cloth : alk. paper)
Information technology--Social aspects. Digital media--Social aspects. Mass media--Technological innovations. Telecommunication--Social aspects. Information society.