New Media, New Audiences?

New literacy, new audiences: social media and cultural institutions

This paper reports on a major Australian research project which examines whether the evolution in digital content creation and social media can create a new audience of active cultural participants. The project draws together experts from major Australian museums, libraries and screen centres to examine the evolution in digital contentcreation and social media. It explores whether organizations...

New Media and Peacemaking Diplomacy

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments’ objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors...

Media Audiences, Interpreters and Users

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New Media: New Pleasures

media suggests that they offer more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work within media and cultural studies has failed to interrogate these claims empirically. This article critically assesses the conceptualization of pleasure as it is deployed in media audience research and attempts to update these conceptualizations by drawing upon game design theory...

New Philosophy for New Media