@article{morain_frith_cummings_berube_2011, title={Review Essay: Understanding Digital Media and Society}, volume={61}, ISSN={["0021-9916"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01560.x}, abstractNote={Bookstore shelves are filled with works about the digital media revolution, the authors of which claim to have an inside and nuanced understanding of one or more digital media artifacts, such as Facebook or Twitter. The recent proliferation of literature on emerging technologies and changing social behavior makes it difficult to find well-researched and engaging arguments that are relevant to digital media scholars. Fortunately, Polity's Digital Media and Society Series has consistently published one of the strongest collections devoted to digital media studies. The Digital Media and Society Series includes 12 books on diverse topics ranging from the challenges facing the music industry to the explosion of mobile communication. We have chosen to focus on 3 of the 12 books in this review to provide a snapshot of the research you can expect from Polity; each book in the series deserves its own thorough review and we recommend all 12 books in the series for their own respective audiences and purposes. The three we chose capture the breadth and variety of the series as a whole, including a detailed discussion of late capitalist society (The Information Society), an excellent examination of the organizing technology of the Information Age (Search Engine Society), and an analysis of a specific digital media community (YouTube).}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION}, author={Morain, Matthew and Frith, Jordan and Cummings, Christopher and Berube, David M.}, year={2011}, month={Jun}, pages={E12–E14} } @article{frith_morain_cummings_berube_2011, title={The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains}, volume={61}, ISSN={["0021-9916"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01535.x}, abstractNote={Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains Nicholas Carr W. W. Norton, New York, 2010$17.99 (hard), p. 276You are not a gadget: A manifesto Jaron Lanier Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, New York, 2010$16.47 (hard), p. 224 Jordan Frith, Jordan Frith 1North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Matt Morain, Matt Morain 1North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chris Cummings, Chris Cummings 1North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Berube David Berube 1North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 61, Issue 1, February 2011, Pages E9–E12, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01535.x Published: 01 February 2011}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION}, author={Frith, Jordan and Morain, Matt and Cummings, Chris and Berube, David}, year={2011}, month={Feb}, pages={E9–E12} }