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Reviewing the New media: an introduction

The first chapter of the New Media: an introduction provides a comprehensive, accessible and timely overview of the major forces shaping new media technologies. It recognises the new media not simply as forms of technological hardware, but also as 'social software', both shaping and being shaped by the social, cultural, political and economic environments in which they are developed and used. New media developments are analysed in relation to broader trends of digitisation, convergence, globalisation, interactivity, networking and the growth of creative industries in the context of the 'new' or 'creative economy'.  The information on this chapter offers students with the skills for scholarly engagement with the dynamic, fast- paced world of new media. Based on an historic understanding of new media developments. This book is a must have for students studying media and journalism.

The second chapter focuses at the broader socio-cultural impacts of new media. Terry explains in detail the 20 key recurring concepts that come into in identifying what it is to be‛ new’. This is very vital because it gives background information on the new media, making it simpler and more convenient for people to refer to the capacity of networked ICTs and how to interlink the three Cs which are computing and IT, communication networks and media content that occurred with the development and popularisation of the internet and the convergent products, services, and activities that have emerged in the  digital media space.